First look at gut microbes in an American Indian community

There's growing recognition that the trillions of microbes living in and on the human body—collectively known as the microbiome—play a critical role in health and disease. However, very little is known about how the diversity of those microbes might vary among different groups of people, and whether and how those variations might play into well-recognized health disparities. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on December 3 have taken a step toward filling those gaps with the first descriptions of the gut microbiomes of individuals in a Native American community.

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