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. 2022 Aug;27(4):e12899.
doi: 10.1111/hel.12899. Epub 2022 Jun 9.

Influences of Helicobacter pylori infection on diversity, heterogeneity, and composition of human gastric microbiomes across stages of gastric cancer development

Wanmeng Xiao  1   2 , Zhanshan Sam Ma  1   2   3
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Influences of Helicobacter pylori infection on diversity, heterogeneity, and composition of human gastric microbiomes across stages of gastric cancer development

Wanmeng Xiao et al. Helicobacter. 2022 Aug.

Abstract

Background: About a half of the world's population is infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), but only 1%-3% of them develop gastric cancer. As a primary risk factor for gastric cancer, the relationship between H. pylori infection and gastric microbiome has been a focus in recent years.

Materials and methods: We reanalyze 11 human gastric microbiome datasets with or without H. pylori, covering the healthy control (HC) and four disease stages (chronic gastritis (CG), atrophic gastritis (AG), intestinal metaplasia (IM), and gastric cancer (GC)) of gastric cancer development to quantitatively compare the influences of the H. pylori infection and disease stages on the diversity, heterogeneity, and composition of gastric microbiome. Four medical ecology approaches including (i) diversity analysis with Hill numbers, (ii) heterogeneity analysis with Taylor's power law extensions (TPLE), (iii) diversity scaling analysis with diversity-area relationship (DAR) model, and (iv) shared species analysis were applied to fulfill the data reanalysis.

Results: (i) The influences of H. pylori infection on the species diversity, spatial heterogeneity, and potential diversity of gastric microbiome seem to be more prevalent than the influences of disease stages during gastric cancer development. (ii) The influences of H. pyloriinfection on diversity, heterogeneity, and composition of gastric microbiomes in HC, CG, IM, and GC stages appear more prevalent than those in AG stage.

Conclusion: Our study confirmed the impact of H. pylori infection on human gastric microbiomes: The influences of H. pylori infection on the diversity, heterogeneity, and composition of gastric microbiomes appear to be disease-stage dependent.

Keywords: Helicobacter pylori; diversity; gastric cancer; heterogeneity; human gastric microbiome; medical ecology.

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