Sex differences in the oral microbiome, host traits, and their causal relationships

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  • Xiaomin Liu
  • Xin Tong
  • Jie Zhu
  • Liu Tian
  • Qiang Sun
  • Yanmei Ju
  • Leying Zou
  • Haorong Lu
  • Xuemei Qiu
  • Qiang Li
  • Yunli Liao
  • Heng Lian
  • Yong Zuo
  • Xiaomin Chen
  • Weiqiao Rao
  • Yan Ren
  • Yuan Wang
  • Jin Zi
  • Rong Wang
  • Xun Xu
  • Huanming Yang
  • Jian Wang
  • Yang Zong
  • Weibin Liu
  • Yong Hou
  • Xin Jin
  • Liang Xiao
  • Huijue Jia
  • Tao Zhang
The oral microbiome has been implicated in a growing number of diseases; however, determinants of the oral microbiome and their roles remain elusive. Here, we investigated the oral (saliva and tongue dorsum) metagenome, the whole genome, and other omics data in a total of 4,478 individuals and demonstrated that the oral microbiome composition and its major contributing host factors significantly differed between sexes. We thus conducted a sex-stratified metagenome-genome-wide-association study (M-GWAS) and identified 11 differential genetic associations with the oral microbiome (psex-difference < 5 × 10−8). Furthermore, we performed sex-stratified Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses and identified abundant causalities between the oral microbiome and serum metabolites. Notably, sex-specific microbes-hormonal interactions explained the mostly observed sex hormones differences such as the significant causalities enrichments for aldosterone in females and androstenedione in males. These findings illustrate the necessity of sex stratification and deepen our understanding of the interplay between the oral microbiome and serum metabolites.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer105839
TidsskriftiScience
Vol/bind26
Udgave nummer1
Antal sider23
ISSN2589-0042
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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Funding Information:
We sincerely thank the support provided by the China National Gene Bank. We thank all the volunteers for their time and self-collecting the oral samples using our kit. We thank for the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32200548 ).

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