Transitioning From Descriptive to Mechanistic Understanding of the Microbiome: The Need for a Prospective Longitudinal Approach to Predicting Disease

Victoria J Martin; Maureen M Leonard; Lauren Fiechtner; Alessio Fasano

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.08.049

Transitioning From Descriptive to Mechanistic Understanding of the Microbiome: The Need for a Prospective Longitudinal Approach to Predicting Disease

J Pediatr. 2016 Dec:179:240-248. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.08.049. Epub 2016 Sep 12.

Authors

Victoria J Martin¹, Maureen M Leonard¹, Lauren Fiechtner¹, Alessio Fasano²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA.
² Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA. Electronic address: afasano@mgh.harvard.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: autoimmune disease; celiac disease; food allergy; inflammatory bowel disease; metabolomics; multi-omic data integration; necrotizing enterocolitis; obesity; probiotics.

MeSH terms

Celiac Disease / etiology*
Child
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / etiology*
Humans
Hypersensitivity / etiology*
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / etiology*
Microbiota*
Obesity / etiology*

Grants and funding

R01 DK104344/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States