Bacteroides dorei dominates gut microbiome prior to autoimmunity in Finnish children at high risk for type 1 diabetes

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Citation
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Authors
Davis-Richardson AG, Ardissone AN, Dias R, Simell V, Leonard MT, Kemppainen KM, Drew JC, Schatz D, Atkinson MA, Kolaczkowski B, Ilonen J, Knip M, Toppari J, Nurminen N, Hyöty H, Veijola R, Simell T, Mykkänen J, Simell O, Triplett EW
Journal
Frontiers in microbiology
Year
2014
Keywords:
Bacteroides dorei, Bacteroides vulgatus, autoimmunity, microbiome, type-1 diabetes
The incidence of the autoimmune disease, type 1 diabetes (T1D), has increased dramatically over the last half century in many developed countries and is particularly high in Finland and other Nordic countries. Along with genetic predisposition, environmental factors are thought to play a critical role in this increase. As with other autoimmune diseases, the gut microbiome is thought to play a potential role in controlling progression to T1D in children with high genetic risk, but we know little about how the gut microbiome develops in children with high genetic risk for T1D. In this study, the early development of the gut microbiomes of 76 children at high genetic risk for T1D was determined using high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Stool samples from children born in the same hospital in Turku, Finland were collected at monthly intervals beginning at 4-6 months after birth until 2.2 years of age. Of those 76 children, 29 seroconverted to T1D-related autoimmunity (cases) including 22 who later developed T1D, the remaining 47 subjects remained healthy (controls). While several significant compositional differences in low abundant species prior to seroconversion were found, one highly abundant group composed of two closely related species, Bacteroides dorei and Bacteroides vulgatus, was significantly higher in cases compared to controls prior to seroconversion. Metagenomic sequencing of samples high in the abundance of the B. dorei/vulgatus group before seroconversion, as well as longer 16S rRNA sequencing identified this group as Bacteroides dorei. The abundance of B. dorei peaked at 7.6 months in cases, over 8 months prior to the appearance of the first islet autoantibody, suggesting that early changes in the microbiome may be useful for predicting T1D autoimmunity in genetically susceptible infants. The cause of increased B. dorei abundance in cases is not known but its timing appears to coincide with the introduction of solid food.

Experiment 1


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Subjects

Location of subjects
Finland
Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.
Homo sapiens
Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
Feces Cow dung,Cow pat,Droppings,Dung,Excrement,Excreta,Faeces,Fecal material,Fecal matter,Fewmet,Frass,Guano,Matières fécales@fr,Merde@fr,Ordure,Partie de la merde@fr,Piece of shit,Porción de mierda@es,Portion of dung,Portion of excrement,Portion of faeces,Portion of fecal material,Portion of fecal matter,Portion of feces,Portion of guano,Portion of scat,Portionem cacas,Scat,Spoor,Spraint,Stool,Teil der fäkalien@de,Feces,feces
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Autoimmune type 1 diabetes type 1A,Autoimmune type 1 diabetes,autoimmune type 1 diabetes
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Healthy controls
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Cases
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
This cases included 29 children who developed type 1 diabetes (T1D)-related autoimmunity, with 22 later progressing to T1D.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
47
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
29

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V3-V4
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
Illumina

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
relative abundances
Statistical test
Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.001
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
Yes
Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
age


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Source: Tables S6–S8

Description: The relative abundances of taxa at ranks Phylum, Genus, and Species were compared between all samples from all cases and controls using the non-parametric Mann–Whitney U-test.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Cases

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Prevotella
5-7N155-7N15
Adlercreutzia
Bacteroides
BF311BF311
Blvii28Blvii28
Butyricimonas
CF231CF231
Coprobacillus
Lachnobacterium
Paludibacter
Parabacteroides
Prosthecobacter
Ruminococcus
Sphingobacterium
Bacteroidota
Bacteroides acidifaciens
Phocaeicola barnesiae
Bacteroides caccae
Bacteroides cellulosilyticus
Bacteroides clarus
Bacteroides dorei-vulgatusBacteroides dorei-vulgatus
Bacteroides eggerthii
Bacteroides faecichinchillae
Bacteroides finegoldii
Bacteroides fragilis-thetaiotaomicronBacteroides fragilis-thetaiotaomicron
Bacteroides intestinalis
Phocaeicola massiliensis
Bacteroides ovatus
Bacteroides reticulotermitis
Bacteroides stercorirosoris
Bacteroides stercoris
Bacteroides uniformis
Bacteroides xylanisolvens
Parabacteroides distasonis
Segatella copri
Roseburia faecis
Sphingobacterium multivorum
Ruminococcus flavefaciens

Revision editor(s): Aleru Divine

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Source: Tables S6–S8

Description: The relative abundances of taxa at ranks Phylum, Genus, and Species were compared between all samples from all cases and controls using the non-parametric Mann–Whitney U-test.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Cases

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Eubacterium
Acinetobacter
Aerococcus
Anaerofustis
Cardiobacterium
Christensenella
Clostridium
Dechloromonas
Dickeya
Enterococcus
Erwinia
Facklamia
Granulicatella
Janthinobacterium
Lautropia
Methylibium
Morganella
Photorhabdus
Plesiomonas
Proteus
Providencia
Salinispora
Salinivibrio
Salmonella
Serratia
Shewanella
Sodalis
Staphylococcus
Syntrophobacter
Pseudomonadota
Mycoplasmatota
Amedibacillus dolichus
Mediterraneibacter gnavus
Clostridium neonatale
Clostridium perfringens
Pantoea dispersa
Erwinia oleae
Erwinia soli
Janthinobacterium lividum
Methylibium petroleiphilum
Morganella morganii
Plesiomonas shigelloides
Salinispora tropica
Salinivibrio costicola
Salmonella enterica
Serratia marcescens
Staphylococcus equorum
Streptococcus agalactiae

Revision editor(s): Aleru Divine