• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134623
Corpus ID: 1884955

Secretor Status Is Strongly Associated with Microbial Alterations Observed during Pregnancy

@article{Kumar2015SecretorSI,
  title={Secretor Status Is Strongly Associated with Microbial Alterations Observed during Pregnancy},
  author={H. Kumar and P. Wacklin and M. Nakphaichit and Eliisa Loyttyniemi and S. Chowdhury and Y. Shouche and J. M{\"a}tt{\"o} and E. Isolauri and S. Salminen},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2015},
  volume={10}
}

• H. Kumar, P. Wacklin, +6 authors S. Salminen
• Published 2015
• Biology, Medicine
• PLoS ONE

During pregnancy there are significant changes in gut microbiota composition and activity. The impact of secretor status as determined by genotyping FUT2 (fucosyltransferase 2) gene was taken as one of the confounding factors associated with faecal microbiota changes during pregnancy. In this prospective study, we followed women during pregnancy (total = 123 of which secretors = 108, non-secretors = 15) and characterised their gut microbiota by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR… Expand

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