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The latest progress in studies of human oral microbiome

XUE Jing, XIAO Li-ying, ZHOU Xue-dong   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
  • Received:2010-02-25 Revised:2010-02-25 Online:2010-02-20 Published:2010-02-20
  • Contact: ZHOU Xue-dong,Tel:028-85501481

Abstract:

With the successful implementation of Human Genome Project, more and more scientists started to pay attention on the second genome of human body: Microbiome. This paper will briefly introduce the latest developments of the Human Microbiome Project, the human oral microbiome research, and new technologies of microbial gene research.

Key words: oral microbiota, microbiome, sequencing technique