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PRJNA668357 SRP286910

Gut microbiota after bariatric surgery, USA, longitudinal

A metagenomic study of the gut microbiota following bariatric surgery

135 gut metagenome samples from obese patients in the USA, collected longitudinally following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery to study microbial shifts linked to weight loss. machine-written summary

135 samples · 135 runs · US · Age unknown · 2022 · 5.79 Gbp / sample

Sources
✓Sequence archive 135✓Abstract / description 135○Full text○Supplementary tables–External resources–User contribution–Human verified

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what each source gave
✓ Sequence archive135 sample values (country)
✓ Abstract / description135 sample values (health condition)
○ Full textread; no usable statement or table · PMC11958714, PMC12085223, PMC12342957, PMC8224199
○ Supplementary tablesfiles read; no table could be matched to the samples
– External resourcesnot covered by the external resources we ingest
– User contributionnothing uploaded yet · share metadata
– Human verifiednot yet checked by a person · I checked this project — verify it
Interventions

Surgical procedure studied before/after (bariatric surgery · population obesity · Roux-en-Y gastric bypass / sleeve gastrectomy, sampled pre- and post-surgery

“characterize a microbial signature following Roux-en-Y Gastric bypass” — bioproject.description (study level; per-sample arms are in the intervention column below)

Samples at a glance
1 country
Age
unknown135
Condition
obesity135
Country
US135
Body site
primary135
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: 8 samplesall projects, 3–10 Gbp: 253,728 samples (44 %)this project, 3–10 Gbp: 121 samplesall projects, 10–30 Gbp: 72,533 samples (13 %)this project, 10–30 Gbp: 5 samplesall projects, 30–100 Gbp: 3,024 samples (1 %)this project, 30–100 Gbp: 1 samplesall projects, 100–300 Gbp: 106 samples (0 %)all projects, ≥ 300 Gbp: 9 samples (0 %)project median 5.79 Gbp per sample0130Gbp
Community composition
Blautia_A 5.8%Roseburia 5.6%Faecalibacterium 5.6%Streptococcus 4.7%Bacteroides 4.5%Collinsella 3.7%Akkermansia 3.6%Mediterraneibacter 3.5%Phocaeicola 3.1%Alistipes 2.5%Fimenecus 2.2%Bifidobacterium 2.2%not assigned to a genus 4.5%other genera 48.5%

Genera, mean relative abundance over 124 profiled gut samples of this project (Sandpiper SingleM profiles, GTDB R232; low-depth and non-metagenome profiles left out).

Field coverage
fieldsamplescoverageR1R2R3R4
age_category0 0%
country135 100%135
health_condition135 100%135
subject_id0 0%
Papers (4)
  • High-dimensional biomarker identification for interpretable disease prediction via machine learning models. 2025 PMID 40286292 PMC12085223 own_data
  • Decoding longitudinal microbiome trajectories: an interpretable machine learning approach for biomarker discovery and prediction. 2025 PMID 40794955 PMC12342957 own_data
  • A microbial signature following bariatric surgery is robustly consistent across multiple cohorts. 2021 PMID 34159880 PMC8224199 unsure
  • MAGs-based genomic comparison of gut significantly enriched microbes in obese individuals pre- and post-bariatric surgery across diverse locations. 2025 PMID 40171165 PMC11958714 unsure
Details
Archive description

Bariatric surgery induces significant shifts in the gut microbiota which could potentially contribute to weight loss and metabolic benefits. The aim of this study was to characterize a microbial signature following Roux-en-Y Gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery.

How this project entered the registry

Classified as human gut / stool shotgun DNA metagenome of age unknown by sonnet_x2 with confidence 0.75. Assay shotgun_dna.

  • host run.host_tax_id · “9606”
  • body site study.title · “gut microbiota following bariatric surgery”
Evidence examples (one per field × route)
samplefieldvaluerouteconf.sourcequote
SAMN16406885countryUSR10.90sample.attr.geo_loc_nameUSA
SAMN16406885health_conditionobesityR40.30study.descriptionBariatric surgery induces significant shifts in the gut microbiota
Sequencing

135 runs over 135 samples · mean 6.17 Gbp per run (median 5.79 Gbp, total 833.29 Gbp; 135 runs with a base count) · layout PAIRED 135 · platform ILLUMINA 135 · models Illumina HiSeq 4000 (135) · 92% of runs with a Sandpiper profile · first public 2022-11-02

Authors (23)

Fouladi F first · Carroll IM · Sharpton TJ · Bulik-Sullivan E · Heinberg L · Steffen KJ · Fodor AA last · Shi H first · Li J last · Dai Y first · Wu D · Carroll I · Zou F · Zou B last · Qian Y · Qu Y · Guan W · Xie J · Wang D · Butler C · Dashper S · Divaris K · Liu Y

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Downloads

PRJNA668357.csv.gz (3.9 KB) · parquet (73.7 KB) — all 135 samples, every field with route and confidence · PRJNA668357_determinations.csv.gz (1.8 KB) — 270 evidence rows

Samples (135 · every field this project has values for · hover a cell for its source)
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