2016, Cilt 46, Sayı 4, Sayfa(lar) 147-151 |
[ Türkçe Özet ]
[ PDF ]
[ Benzer Makaleler ]
|
Human Being as a “Superorganism”; Genetic Control of Microbiome |
Aycan GÜNDOĞDU1,2 |
1Erciyes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Kayseri 2Erciyes Üniversitesi Genom ve Kök Hücre Merkezi (GENKÖK), Kayseri |
Keywords: Human microbiome, genomics, complex diseases |
With the latest advancements in genomic science, the approach
of metagenomics that enables to study microorganisms
without any need of culturing and isolation has evolved. In the
light of these technical achievements the role of the human
microbiome in health and disease states has started to be
revealed, redefining human being as a ‘superorganism'.
Accordingly, human microbiome is subject to significant
changes in disease state called dysbiosis. On the other hand,
it was reported a short while ago that some genetic variations
in human genome are associated with the microbial components
of human microbiome and the presence/absence or relative
abundance of taxonomic units in it. When all of these findings
are gathered, it can be observed that an important portion of
the genetic variations associated with diseases (e.g. diabetes,
arthritis) are also overlapped with related microbiomic
variations. A novel factor, microbiome, is expected to weigh in
the relationship of the disease and the host genetics in the near
future. Therefore novel experimental designs encompassing
metagenomic, and other omic analyses of human genomehuman
microbiome, as well as other omics, in the context of
disease will be needed. Human genome-human microbiome
relationship is presumably both epistatic and pleiotropic. For
that reason, it is inevitable that the future genomic projections
should employ Metagenome-Wide Association Studies
(MGWAS) bioinformatics considering the multi-genic effects
of genetic variations and the microbiome analysis.
|
[ Türkçe Özet ]
[ PDF ]
[ Benzer Makaleler ]
|