Yoshihiko Tomofuji, Toshihiro Kishikawa, Kyuto Sonehara, Yuichi Maeda, Kotaro Ogawa, Shuhei Kawabata, Eri Oguro-Igashira, Tatsusada Okuno, Takuro Nii, Makoto Kinoshita, Masatoshi Takagaki, Kenichi Yamamoto, Noriko Arase, Mayu Yagita-Sakamaki, Akiko Hosokawa, Daisuke Motooka, Yuki Matsumoto, Hidetoshi Matsuoka, Maiko Yoshimura, Shiro Ohshima, Shota Nakamura, Manabu Fujimoto, Hidenori Inohara, Haruhiko Kishima, Hideki Mochizuki, Kiyoshi Takeda, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Yukinori Okada
Interaction between the gut microbiome and host plays a key role in human health. Here, we perform a metagenome shotgun-sequencing-based analysis of Japanese participants to reveal associations between the gut microbiome, host genetics, and plasma metabolome. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) for microbial species (n = 524) identifies associations between the PDE1C gene locus and Bacteroides intestinalis and between TGIF2 and TGIF2-RAB5IF gene loci and Bacteroides acidifiaciens. In a microbial gene ortholog GWAS, agaE and agaS, which are related to the metabolism of carbohydrates forming the blood group A antigen, are associated with blood group A in a manner depending on the secretor status determined by the East Asian-specific FUT2 variant...
October 30, 2023: Cell Reports