Gut microbiota composition differences are associated with geographic location and age in malaria-endemic regions of Rwanda

• Jean d’Amour Mutoni,

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

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Biomedical Laboratory Sciences Department, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-9562

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• Matthias Van Hul,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, WELBIO Department, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium

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• Aline Uwimana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Biomedical Laboratory Sciences Department, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Camille Petitfils,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, WELBIO Department, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-300X

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• Giselle C. Wong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, WELBIO Department, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3084-0599

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• Anthony Puel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, WELBIO Department, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium

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• Amandine Everard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, WELBIO Department, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium

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• Hélène Alexiou,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dietetics Department, Haute Ecole Leonard de Vinci, Health Sector, Brussels, Belgium

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• Leon Mutesa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Leon Mutesa, Jean-Paul Coutelier, Nadine Rujeni, Patrice D. Cani

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Human Genetics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5308-3706

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• Jean-Paul Coutelier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Leon Mutesa, Jean-Paul Coutelier, Nadine Rujeni, Patrice D. Cani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation De Duve Institute, UCLouvain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Nadine Rujeni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Leon Mutesa, Jean-Paul Coutelier, Nadine Rujeni, Patrice D. Cani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: n.rujeni@ur.ac.rw (NR), patrice.cani@uclouvain.be (PDC)

  Affiliation Biomedical Laboratory Sciences Department, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Patrice D. Cani

  Contributed equally to this work with: Leon Mutesa, Jean-Paul Coutelier, Nadine Rujeni, Patrice D. Cani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: n.rujeni@ur.ac.rw (NR), patrice.cani@uclouvain.be (PDC)

  Affiliations Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group (MNUT), UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, WELBIO Department, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and BIOtechnology (WELBIO), WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC), UCLouvain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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