Gut Microbiome-Based Metagenomic Signature for Non-invasive Detection of Advanced Fibrosis in Human Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

From BugSigDB
Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09
study design
Citation
PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.
DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.
URI
Authors
Loomba R, Seguritan V, Li W, Long T, Klitgord N, Bhatt A, Dulai PS, Caussy C, Bettencourt R, Highlander SK, Jones MB, Sirlin CB, Schnabl B, Brinkac L, Schork N, Chen CH, Brenner DA, Biggs W, Yooseph S, Venter JC, Nelson KE
Journal
Cell metabolism
Year
2017
Keywords:
NASH, biomarker, cirrhosis, fatty liver, fibrosis, hepatic steatosis, hepatitis, liver disease, microbiome, non-invasive
The presence of advanced fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most important predictor of liver mortality. There are limited data on the diagnostic accuracy of gut microbiota-derived signature for predicting the presence of advanced fibrosis. In this prospective study, we characterized the gut microbiome compositions using whole-genome shotgun sequencing of DNA extracted from stool samples. This study included 86 uniquely well-characterized patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD, of which 72 had mild/moderate (stage 0-2 fibrosis) NAFLD, and 14 had advanced fibrosis (stage 3 or 4 fibrosis). We identified a set of 40 features (p < 0.006), which included 37 bacterial species that were used to construct a Random Forest classifier model to distinguish mild/moderate NAFLD from advanced fibrosis. The model had a robust diagnostic accuracy (AUC 0.936) for detecting advanced fibrosis. This study provides preliminary evidence for a fecal-microbiome-derived metagenomic signature to detect advanced fibrosis in NAFLD.

Experiment 1


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: WikiWorks

Revision editor(s): Lwaldron, WikiWorks, Aiyshaaaa, Victoria

Subjects

Location of subjects
United States of America
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
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic,fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic, susceptibility to, 1,liver disease, alcoholic, susceptibility to, 1,NAFLD - Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease,NAFLD - nonalcoholic fatty liver disease,NAFLD1,non-alcoholic fatty liver,non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease,nonalcoholic fatty liver disease,Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
mild/moderate fibrosis
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
advanced fibrosis
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Based on clinical, magnetic resonance, histology assessment; Mild/Moderate NAFLD: fibrosis 0-2. Advanced NAFLD: fibrosis 3-4
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
72
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
14

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
WMS
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
Not specified
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
Random Forest Analysis
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.05
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
Yes
Confounders controlled for Confounding factors that have been accounted for by stratification or model adjustment
age, body mass index


Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Fatima on 2021/07/28

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Shaimaa Elsafoury

Revision editor(s): Lwaldron, WikiWorks

Source: Table 3

Description: relative abundances of top 4 phyla found in all samples and representative species from the first 3 phyla.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in advanced fibrosis

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Blautia obeum
Agathobacter rectalis

Revision editor(s): Lwaldron, WikiWorks