Reply to Moossavi and Azad, "Quantifying and Interpreting the Association between Early-Life Gut Microbiota Composition and Childhood Obesity"

Maggie A Stanislawski^{1

2}, Dana Dabelea^{3

4

2}, Brandie D Wagner⁵, Nina Iszatt⁶, Cecilie Dahl⁷, Marci K Sontag^{3

8}, Rob Knight^{9

10

11}, Catherine A Lozupone¹², Merete Eggesbø⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA Maggie.Stanislawski@ucdenver.edu.
² Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁶ Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
⁷ Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁸ Center for Public Health Innovation, CI International, Littleton, Colorado, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹¹ Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹² Department of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Comment

Maggie A Stanislawski et al. mBio. 2019.

. 2019 Feb 12;10(1):e00047-19.

doi: 10.1128/mBio.00047-19.

Maggie A Stanislawski^{1

2}, Dana Dabelea^{3

4

2}, Brandie D Wagner⁵, Nina Iszatt⁶, Cecilie Dahl⁷, Marci K Sontag^{3

8}, Rob Knight^{9

10

11}, Catherine A Lozupone¹², Merete Eggesbø⁶

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA Maggie.Stanislawski@ucdenver.edu.
² Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁶ Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
⁷ Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁸ Center for Public Health Innovation, CI International, Littleton, Colorado, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹¹ Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹² Department of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: microbiome; molecular epidemiology; obesity; pediatric.

Comment on

Gut Microbiota in the First 2 Years of Life and the Association with Body Mass Index at Age 12 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort.
Stanislawski MA, Dabelea D, Wagner BD, Iszatt N, Dahl C, Sontag MK, Knight R, Lozupone CA, Eggesbø M. Stanislawski MA, et al. mBio. 2018 Oct 23;9(5):e01751-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01751-18. mBio. 2018. PMID: 30352933 Free PMC article.
Quantifying and Interpreting the Association between Early-Life Gut Microbiota Composition and Childhood Obesity.
Moossavi S, Azad MB. Moossavi S, et al. mBio. 2019 Feb 12;10(1):e02787-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02787-18. mBio. 2019. PMID: 30755514 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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