Infant & maternal gut virome development, California cohort
Stanford's Outcomes Research in Kids (STORK) Virome
1,144 stool samples from a longitudinal cohort of 53 infants (age 2 weeks–3 years) and their mothers in California, profiling viral metagenomes to compare infant and maternal gut virome development over time. machine-written summary
Sequencing depth per sample · this project all projects
Sampling design and relatedness
longitudinalmother–infant
102 of 105 people sampled more than once (1,137 samples; median 10, up to 18 per person) · follow-up median 18 mo (max 2.8 y) · median interval between samples 4 mo(time from collection dates).
Schedule stated by the source: “Stool samples collected longitudinally from infants age 2 weeks to 3 years; mothers also sampled, up to 18 samples/subject (median 10).” (time origin: birth); stated follow-up 3.0 y.
Each row is one person (36 shown of 102); dots are samples at days since that person's first sample; rows of one family are adjacent and coloured by role (mother, father, child, twin).
Cohort of 53 infants and their biological mothers; stool virome compared longitudinally between infant and maternal pairs. · 51 families with 106 sampled people (51 with a parent and a child).
50 × mother + child
1 × mother + child×5
motherchild · circles are people (pale = no sequenced sample), arrows run donor → recipient and parent → child, curved lines join twins, partners and siblings, squares are shared settings or families without recorded roles. Shown: 24 of 51 families (one per family structure, then more). 105 people in the project overall.
CAG-302 5.6%Bacteroides 5.3%Prevotella 4.8%Nanosynbacter 3.7%Phocaeicola 3.4%CAG-417 2.6%Romboutsia 2.5%Ruminococcoides 2.0%Clostridium 1.5%Intestinibacter 1.4%Roseburia 1.1%Thomasclavelia 1.0%not assigned to a genus 48.7%other genera 16.4%
Genera, mean relative abundance over 366 profiled gut samples of this project (Sandpiper SingleM profiles, GTDB R232; low-depth and non-metagenome profiles left out).
A meta-analysis of infant gut viromes reveals global patterns in bacteriophage community assembly and functional capacity over the first three years of life. PMID 42315844PMC13434738curated
Details
Archive description
The virome of the human gut and its development in early life are poorly understood. We performed viral metagenomic sequencing on stool samples collected longitudinally from a cohort of 53 infants from age 2 weeks to 3 years (80.7 billion reads), and from their mothers (9.8 billion reads) to describe and compare their viromes. The asymptomatic infant virome consisted of bacteriophages, nonhuman dietary / environmental viruses, and human-host viruses, predominated by picornaviruses. In contrast, human-host viruses were largely absent from the maternal virome. Novel, sequence-divergent vertebrate viruses were detected in the maternal but not infant virome. As the infants aged, the phage component of the infant virome evolved to resemble the maternal virome, but by age 3, the human-host component remained dissimilar from the maternal virome. Thus, infant virome development in early life is shaped predominantly by dietary, infectious, and environmental factors rather than from direct acquisition from the mother.
How this project entered the registry
Classified as human gut / stool shotgun DNA metagenome of infant / toddler and adult by deterministic_prior with confidence 0.90. Assay shotgun_dna.
body sitestudy.description · “of the human gut and its development”
body siteexternal_curation.infant_catalog · “infant triage verdict include (gut/stool scope)”
life stageexternal_curation.infant_catalog · “infant triage verdict include (0-3 y scope)”
life stagestudy.description · “its development in early life are poorly understood.”
life stagestudy.description · “and from their mothers (9.8 billion reads)”
Evidence examples (one per field × route)
sample
field
value
route
conf.
source
quote
SAMN32525381
age_at_collection_days
84.0
R2
0.75
paper.supp.human_viruses.txt[AgeBabyDays]
AgeBabyDays: 84
SAMN32525381
collection_date
2012-01-25
R1
0.85
biosample.attribute:collection_date
2012-01-25
SAMN32525381
country
US
R1
0.90
biosample_attr
USA: California
SAMN32525381
family_id
1008
R1
0.70
sample.name_rule:library_name
library_name=1008_B1_DNA
SAMN32525381
family_role
child
R1
0.70
sample.name_rule:library_name
library_name=1008_B1_DNA
SAMN32525381
location_region
California
R3
0.70
paper.fulltext.methods
Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA), the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
SAMN32525381
subject_id
1008
R1
0.70
sample.name_rule:replicate
1008_B1_DNA
SAMN32525381
timepoint_label
B1
R1
0.70
sample.name_rule:replicate
1008_B1_DNA
SAMN32527530
timepoint_label
M1
R1
0.70
run.library_name
M1008_M1_DNA
Sequencing
1,144 runs over 1,144 samples · mean 2.43 Gbp per run (median 1.32 Gbp, total 2,777.27 Gbp; 1,144 runs with a base count) · layout SINGLE 1,144 · platform ILLUMINA 1,144 · models Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (1,144) · 39% of runs with a Sandpiper profile · first public 2023-01-03 – 2023-01-04