Does elevated levels of adiposity, as measured by BMI, have an observational and causal effect on gut microbiome variation?
A one-sample MR of BMI(GRS) to microbiome traits, using the FGFP data set.
Here we will be evaluating the observational and causal relationship between BMI-G(R)S and each mirobiome trait (PA, AB, diversity, and enterotypes), individually.
- Flemish gut flora project (FGFP)
- data from the lab of Jeroen Raes.
- N = ~2200
- microbiome traits
- clinical/questionarie data
- BMI
- age
- sex
- SES
- smoking
- genotype data for BMI associated SNPs
- Yengo et al; n = 656
- Pulit et al; n = 670
- David A Hughes
- Kaitlin Wade
- Charlie hatcher