Gut Microbiota is Altered in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

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study design
Citation
PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.
DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.
URI
Authors
Zhuang ZQ, Shen LL, Li WW, Fu X, Zeng F, Gui L, Lü Y, Cai M, Zhu C, Tan YL, Zheng P, Li HY, Zhu J, Zhou HD, Bu XL, Wang YJ
Journal
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Year
2018
Keywords:
16S ribosomal RNA sequencing, Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-β peptide, gut microbiota
Previous studies suggest that gut microbiota is associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and depression. However, whether the composition and diversity of gut microbiota is altered in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains largely unknown. In the present study, we collected fecal samples from 43 AD patients and 43 age- and gender-matched cognitively normal controls. 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing technique was used to analyze the microbiota composition in feces. The composition of gut microbiota was different between the two groups. Several bacteria taxa in AD patients were different from those in controls at taxonomic levels, such as Bacteroides, Actinobacteria, Ruminococcus, Lachnospiraceae, and Selenomonadales. Our findings suggest that gut microbiota is altered in AD patients and may be involved in the pathogenesis of AD.

Experiment 1


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Peace Sandy on 2024-4-3

Curated date: 2024/03/26

Curator: Temitayo

Revision editor(s): Temitayo, Peace Sandy

Subjects

Location of subjects
China
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
Alzheimer's disease [X]Dementia in Alzheimer's disease,[X]Dementia in Alzheimer's disease (disorder),AD,AD - Alzheimer's disease,Alzheimer Dementia,Alzheimer dementia,Alzheimer Dementia, Presenile,ALZHEIMER DIS,Alzheimer Disease,Alzheimer disease,Alzheimer disease, familial,Alzheimer Type Dementia,Alzheimer's,Alzheimer's Dementia,Alzheimer's dementia,Alzheimer's disease,Alzheimer's disease (disorder),Alzheimer's disease, NOS,Alzheimers,Alzheimers Dementia,Alzheimers dementia,ALZHEIMERS DIS,Alzheimers disease,DAT - Dementia Alzheimer's type,Dementia in Alzheimer's disease,Dementia in Alzheimer's disease (disorder),Dementia in Alzheimer's disease, unspecified (disorder),Dementia of the Alzheimer's type,Dementia, Alzheimer Type,Dementia, Presenile,Dementia, Presenile Alzheimer,Disease, Alzheimer,Disease, Alzheimer's,Presenile Alzheimer Dementia,sporadic Alzheimer's disease,alzheimer's disease
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
Alzheimer's disease
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with active Alzheimer's disease
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
43
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
43
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
6 Months

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
LEfSe
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.01
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
No
Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
age, sex

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
unchanged
Richness Number of species
unchanged

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Peace Sandy on 2024-4-3

Curated date: 2024/03/26

Curator: Temitayo

Revision editor(s): Temitayo, Peace Sandy

Source: Figure 4 B

Description: Differences of bacterial taxa between AD and control group b) Histogram of the LDA scores for different abundant genera. Positive LDA scores indicate the enrichment of taxa in AD group (red) relative to control group (green), and negative LDA scores indicate the depletion of taxa in AD group relative to control group. Box shows statistically significant different bacteria

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Alzheimer's disease

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Actinomycetota
Anaerotruncus
Christensenellaceae
Coprococcus
Coprococcus eutactus
Ezakiella coagulans
Gordonibacter pamelaeae
Mediterraneibacter gnavus
Oscillospiraceae
Porphyromonas bennonis
Prevotella
Rhodospirillaceae
Rhodospirillales
Sarcina
Subdoligranulum
unclassified Subdoligranulum
uncultured Bacteroides sp.

Revision editor(s): Temitayo, Peace Sandy

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Peace Sandy on 2024-4-3

Curated date: 2024/03/26

Curator: Temitayo

Revision editor(s): Temitayo, Peace Sandy

Source: Figure 4 B

Description: Differences of bacterial taxa between AD and control group b) Histogram of the LDA scores for different abundant genera. Positive LDA scores indicate the enrichment of taxa in AD group (red) relative to control group (green), and negative LDA scores indicate the depletion of taxa in AD group relative to control group. Box shows statistically significant different bacteria

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Alzheimer's disease

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Anaerostipes caccae
Bacteroidaceae
Bacteroides
Bacteroides acidifaciens
Blautia
Deinococcales
Deinococcus
Flavonifractor
Flavonifractor plautii
Fusobacterium varium
Lachnoclostridium
Lachnospiraceae
Lachnospiraceae bacterium
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 10-1
Negativicutes
Parabacteroides distasonis
Phocaeicola plebeius
Selenomonadales
Slackia
Stomatobaculum
Thomasclavelia ramosa
Vibrio
Vibrionaceae
Vibrionales
unclassified Ruminococcus
uncultured bacterium
Deinococcus grandis
Parasutterella secunda

Revision editor(s): Temitayo, Peace Sandy