Data on gut metagenomes of the patients with alcoholic dependence syndrome and alcoholic liver cirrhosis

Data Brief. 2017 Jan 17:11:98-102. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.01.008. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Abstract

Alcoholism is associated with significant changes in gut microbiota composition. Metagenomic sequencing allows to assess the altered abundance levels of bacterial taxa and genes in a culture-independent way. We collected 99 stool samples from the patients with alcoholic dependence syndrome (n=72) and alcoholic liver cirrhosis (n=27). Each of the samples was surveyed using "shotgun" (whole-genome) sequencing on SOLiD platform. The reads are deposited in the ENA (project ID: PRJEB18041).

Keywords: Alcohol dependence syndrome; Alcoholic liver cirrhosis; Alcoholism; Dysbiosis; Gut microbiota; Metagenome; “Shotgun” metagenomics.