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Twin and family cohorts
Study design · collection id twins-and-families
Twin-pair and family designs that separate host genetics from shared environment: TwinsUK shotgun deposits, Turnbaugh 2009 obese/lean twins, Korean and Chinese twins, Malawian twins discordant for malnutrition, and twin viromes.
Open in the sample explorer (3,848 samples)
10
studies with member samples
3,848
member samples in this release
Membership rule
| Studies | PRJEB32731, PRJEB98467, PRJEB9576, PRJEB9584, PRJNA32089, PRJEB1690, PRJNA284162 (not in this release), PRJEB12669, PRJEB9818 (not in this release), PRJEB29491, PRJEB47532, PRJNA1203651 |
Listed studies with no member samples after the filters: PRJNA284162, PRJEB9818.
PRJEB9818 and PRJEB29491 are virome-enriched shotgun libraries.
Composition
Age category
| unknown | 3,134 |
| adult | 627 |
| elderly | 72 |
| infant | 15 |
Country
| GB | 3,555 |
| US | 238 |
| KR | 36 |
| CN | 19 |
Health condition
| healthy_control Healthy / control | 435 |
| neurological_psychiatric Neurological / psychiatric (PD | 36 |
| allergy_or_atopy Allergy / atopy / asthma | 24 |
| other_disease Other disease / condition | 8 |
Member studies (10)
| Study | Title | Member samples | First public |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRJEB98467 | Whole shotgun metagenomic sequencing for 1,679 individuals (2,075 samples) from the TwinsUK cohort. Supporting data for: Pope et al, Faecal metabolites as a readout of habitual diet capture dietary interactions with the gut microbiome. | 2,071 | 2026 |
| PRJEB32731 | Whole shotgun metagenomic sequencing for 1,004 individuals belonging to the TwinsUK cohort. Supporting data for: Visconti et al, Interplay between the human gut microbiome and host metabolism | 1,004 | 2019 |
| PRJEB9576 | Shotgun Metagenomics of 250 Adult Twins Reveals Genetic and Environmental Impacts on the Gut Microbiome | 250 | 2016 |
| PRJEB9584 | KCL_twins2 | 211 | 2017 |
| PRJNA1203651 | A gut pathobiont regulates circulating glycine and host metabolism in a twin study comparing vegan and omnivorous diets | 129 | 2024 |
| PRJEB29491 | The virome in adult monozygotic twins with concordant or discordant gut microbiomes | 91 | 2019 |
| PRJEB1690 | This is a metagenomic study to investigate the microbial community and metabolic functions of Korean twin pairs. | 36 | 2014 |
| PRJEB12669 | Gut microbiota of 10 pairs of Chinese infant twins | 19 | 2016 |
| PRJEB47532 | gut metagenomes from twins discordant by anxiety | 19 | 2023 |
| PRJNA32089 | A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins | 18 | 2010 |