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Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification
The human skin microbiome can vary over time, and inter-individual variability of the microbiome is greater than the temporal variability within an individual. The skin microbiome has become a useful tool to identify individuals, and one type of personal identification using the skin microbiome has...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6059399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30044822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199947 |
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author | Watanabe, Hikaru Nakamura, Issei Mizutani, Sayaka Kurokawa, Yumiko Mori, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Ken Yamada, Takuji |
author_facet | Watanabe, Hikaru Nakamura, Issei Mizutani, Sayaka Kurokawa, Yumiko Mori, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Ken Yamada, Takuji |
author_sort | Watanabe, Hikaru |
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description | The human skin microbiome can vary over time, and inter-individual variability of the microbiome is greater than the temporal variability within an individual. The skin microbiome has become a useful tool to identify individuals, and one type of personal identification using the skin microbiome has been reported in a community of less than 20 individuals. However, identification of individuals based on the skin microbiome has shown low accuracy in communities larger than 80 individuals. Here, we developed a new approach for personal identification, which considers that minor taxa are one of the important factors for distinguishing between individuals. We originally established a human skin microbiome for 66 samples from 11 individuals over two years (33 samples each year). Our method could classify individuals with 85% accuracy beyond a one-year sampling period. Moreover, we applied our method to 837 publicly available skin microbiome samples from 89 individuals and succeeded in identifying individuals with 78% accuracy. In short, our results investigate that (i) our new personal identification method worked well with two different communities (our data: 11 individuals; public data: 89 individuals) using the skin microbiome, (ii) defining the personal skin microbiome requires samples from several time points, (iii) inclusion of minor skin taxa strongly contributes to the effectiveness of personal identification. |
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spelling | pubmed-60593992018-08-06 Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification Watanabe, Hikaru Nakamura, Issei Mizutani, Sayaka Kurokawa, Yumiko Mori, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Ken Yamada, Takuji PLoS One Research Article The human skin microbiome can vary over time, and inter-individual variability of the microbiome is greater than the temporal variability within an individual. The skin microbiome has become a useful tool to identify individuals, and one type of personal identification using the skin microbiome has been reported in a community of less than 20 individuals. However, identification of individuals based on the skin microbiome has shown low accuracy in communities larger than 80 individuals. Here, we developed a new approach for personal identification, which considers that minor taxa are one of the important factors for distinguishing between individuals. We originally established a human skin microbiome for 66 samples from 11 individuals over two years (33 samples each year). Our method could classify individuals with 85% accuracy beyond a one-year sampling period. Moreover, we applied our method to 837 publicly available skin microbiome samples from 89 individuals and succeeded in identifying individuals with 78% accuracy. In short, our results investigate that (i) our new personal identification method worked well with two different communities (our data: 11 individuals; public data: 89 individuals) using the skin microbiome, (ii) defining the personal skin microbiome requires samples from several time points, (iii) inclusion of minor skin taxa strongly contributes to the effectiveness of personal identification. Public Library of Science 2018-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6059399/ /pubmed/30044822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199947 Text en © 2018 Watanabe et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Watanabe, Hikaru Nakamura, Issei Mizutani, Sayaka Kurokawa, Yumiko Mori, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Ken Yamada, Takuji Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
title | Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
title_full | Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
title_fullStr | Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
title_full_unstemmed | Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
title_short | Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
title_sort | minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6059399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30044822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199947 |
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