Quantifying and Interpreting the Association between Early-Life Gut Microbiota Composition and Childhood Obesity

Shirin Moossavi^{1

2

3

4}, Meghan B Azad^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada shirin.moossavi@gmail.com.
² Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Pediatrics and Child Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
³ Developmental Origins of Chronic Diseases in Children Network (DEVOTION), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
⁴ Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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Shirin Moossavi et al. mBio. 2019.

. 2019 Feb 12;10(1):e02787-18.

doi: 10.1128/mBio.02787-18.

Shirin Moossavi^{1

2

3

4}, Meghan B Azad^{2

3}

¹ Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada shirin.moossavi@gmail.com.
² Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Pediatrics and Child Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
³ Developmental Origins of Chronic Diseases in Children Network (DEVOTION), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
⁴ Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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Keywords: infant; microbiota; obesity.

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Reply to Moossavi and Azad, "Quantifying and Interpreting the Association between Early-Life Gut Microbiota Composition and Childhood Obesity".
Stanislawski MA, Dabelea D, Wagner BD, Iszatt N, Dahl C, Sontag MK, Knight R, Lozupone CA, Eggesbø M. Stanislawski MA, et al. mBio. 2019 Feb 12;10(1):e00047-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00047-19. mBio. 2019. PMID: 30755504 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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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.

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