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PRJDB40001 DRP016905

Elderly gut microbiome, Ginowan City, Okinawa (cross-sectional)

Human gut metagenome from the elderly population in Ginowan City, Okinawa

67 fecal microbiome samples from elderly participants (aged 65+) in Ginowan City, Okinawa, Japan, collected in a cross-sectional study design. machine-written summary

148 samples · 148 runs · JP · Adult · 2026 · 8.82 Gbp / sample

Sources
✓Sequence archive 497✓Abstract / description 229–Full text–Supplementary tables–External resources–User contribution–Human verified

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✓ Sequence archive497 sample values (collection date, country, latitude, location region, longitude)
✓ Abstract / description229 sample values (location locality, location region)
– Full textno open-access full text linked
– Supplementary tablesno supplementary tables available (or none open access)
– External resourcesnot covered by the external resources we ingest
– User contributionnothing uploaded yet · share metadata
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Samples at a glance
1 sampling locations · 1 country
Age
elderly148
Country
JP148
Body site
primary148
Sequencing depth per sample · this project all projects
all projects, 0–0.03 Gbp: 25,080 samples (4 %)all projects, 0.03–0.1 Gbp: 17,066 samples (3 %)all projects, 0.1–0.3 Gbp: 29,179 samples (5 %)all projects, 0.3–1 Gbp: 47,044 samples (8 %)all projects, 1–3 Gbp: 124,983 samples (22 %)this project, 1–3 Gbp: 3 samplesall projects, 3–10 Gbp: 253,728 samples (44 %)this project, 3–10 Gbp: 105 samplesall projects, 10–30 Gbp: 72,533 samples (13 %)this project, 10–30 Gbp: 40 samplesall projects, 30–100 Gbp: 3,024 samples (1 %)all projects, 100–300 Gbp: 106 samples (0 %)all projects, ≥ 300 Gbp: 9 samples (0 %)project median 8.82 Gbp per sample0130Gbp
Community composition
Blautia_A 8.9%Bifidobacterium 8.5%Faecalibacterium 7.7%Escherichia 4.3%Klebsiella 3.8%Gemmiger 3.8%Akkermansia 3.6%Collinsella 3.2%Streptococcus 2.8%Bacteroides 2.7%Roseburia 2.2%Ruminococcoides 1.9%not assigned to a genus 4.4%other genera 42.2%

Genera, mean relative abundance over 66 profiled gut samples of this project (Sandpiper SingleM profiles, GTDB R232; low-depth and non-metagenome profiles left out).

Field coverage
fieldsamplescoverageR1R2R3R4
age_category148 100%
country148 100%148
health_condition0 0%
subject_id0 0%
collection_date148 100%148
detailed_location148 100%
location_locality148 100%148
location_region148 100%6781
latitude67 45%67
longitude67 45%67
Details
Archive description

We sequenced the total microbial community DNA from fecal samples collected from participants aged 65 years and the elderly in Ginowan City, Okinawa.

How this project entered the registry

Classified as human gut / stool shotgun DNA metagenome of elderly and adult by deterministic_prior with confidence 0.90. Assay shotgun_dna.

  • host external_curation.infant_catalog · “infant triage reason_code age_adult_only”
  • body site study.title · “Human gut metagenome from the”
  • body site study.description · “community DNA from fecal samples collected from”
  • life stage study.title · “metagenome from the elderly population in Ginowan”
  • life stage study.description · “years and the elderly in Ginowan City,”
  • life stage external_curation.infant_catalog · “infant triage reason_code age_adult_only”
Evidence examples (one per field × route)
samplefieldvaluerouteconf.sourcequote
SAMD01792496collection_date2022R10.90biosample.attribute:collection_date2022
SAMD01792496countryJPR10.90sample.attr.geo_loc_nameJapan
SAMD01792496latitude26.2420R10.90biosample.attribute:lat_lon26.242 N 127.7599 E
SAMD01792496location_localityGinowan CityR40.40ena.study_titleGinowan City, Okinawa
SAMD01792496location_regionOkinawaR10.60biosample.attribute:lat_lon26.242 N 127.7599 E
SAMD01792497location_regionOkinawaR40.40ena.study_titleGinowan City, Okinawa
SAMD01792496longitude127.7599R10.90biosample.attribute:lat_lon26.242 N 127.7599 E
Sequencing

148 runs over 148 samples · mean 8.88 Gbp per run (median 8.82 Gbp, total 1,314.32 Gbp; 148 runs with a base count) · layout PAIRED 148 · platform ILLUMINA 148 · models Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (148) · 99% of runs with a Sandpiper profile · first public 2026-01-11

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PRJDB40001.csv.gz (4.5 KB) · parquet (75.3 KB) — all 148 samples, every field with route and confidence · PRJDB40001_determinations.csv.gz (4.2 KB) — 726 evidence rows

Samples (148 · every field this project has values for · hover a cell for its source)
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