Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age

• Elizabeth K. Mallott ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mallott@wustl.edu (EKM); s.bordenstein@psu.edu (SRB)

  Affiliations Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5446-8563

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• Alexandra R. Sitarik,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Leslie D. Leve,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Camille Cioffi,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Carlos A. Camargo Jr,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kohei Hasegawa,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Seth R. Bordenstein

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mallott@wustl.edu (EKM); s.bordenstein@psu.edu (SRB)

  Affiliations Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The One Health Microbiome Center, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7346-0954

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