Open AccessInsights Into Epidemiologic Assessments of the Microbiome and Challenges in Identifying Microbiome Relationships with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
Author(s) -
Freida Blostein,
Betsy Foxman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current epidemiology reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2196-2995
DOI - 10.1007/s40471-021-00263-8
Subject(s) - microbiome , human microbiome , metagenomics , omics , pregnancy , human microbiome project , data science , epidemiology , gut microbiome , biology , computational biology , medicine , bioinformatics , computer science , pathology , genetics , gene
We describe different methods for microbiome assessment and analysis and highlight some of the challenges of using omics data in epidemiologic studies of adverse pregnancy outcomes.