1. Short‐chain fatty acid producers in the gut are associated with pediatric multiple sclerosis onset
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Vinicius A. Schoeps, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Mary K. Horton, Feng Zhu, Kathryn E. McCauley, Zahra Nasr, Akash Virupakshaiah, Mark P. Gorman, Leslie A. Benson, Bianca Weinstock‐Guttman, Amy Waldman, Brenda L. Banwell, Amit Bar‐Or, Ruth Ann Marrie, Gary vanDomselaar, Julia O'Mahony, Ali I. Mirza, Charles N. Bernstein, E. Ann Yeh, T. Charles Casper, Susan V. Lynch, Helen Tremlett, Sergio Baranzini, Emmanuelle Waubant, and the US Network of Pediatric MS Centers
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Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 ,Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,RC346-429 - Abstract
Abstract Objective The relationship between multiple sclerosis and the gut microbiome has been supported by animal models in which commensal microbes are required for the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. However, observational study findings in humans have only occasionally converged when comparing multiple sclerosis cases and controls which may in part reflect confounding by comorbidities and disease duration. The study of microbiome in pediatric‐onset multiple sclerosis offers unique opportunities as it is closer to biological disease onset and minimizes confounding by comorbidities and environmental exposures. Methods A multicenter case–control study in which 35 pediatric‐onset multiple sclerosis cases were 1:1 matched to healthy controls on age, sex, self‐reported race, ethnicity, and recruiting site. Linear mixed effects models, weighted correlation network analyses, and PICRUSt2 were used to identify microbial co‐occurrence networks and for predicting functional abundances based on marker gene sequences. Results Two microbial co‐occurrence networks (one reaching significance after adjustment for multiple comparisons; q
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- 2024
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