Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Publication Title

Front Aging

Keywords

JGM

JAX Source

Front Aging. 2022;3:1002405

Volume

3

First Page

1002405

ISSN

2673-6217

PMID

36338834

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3389/fragi.2022.1002405

Grant

This work is supported with grants from the Evnin Family Chair endowment to GW and the Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology to GK. DS receive support from fellowship NIA-K01AG070310. PD received support from The Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Fund. BW received support from the National Key R&D Program of China 2021YFA1301001. XZ received fellowship support from the Stanford Aging and Ethnogeriatrics (SAGE) Research Center under NIH/NIA grant P30AG059307. The SAGE Center is part of the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Program led by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIA or the NIH.

Abstract

Growing evidence has linked an altered host fecal microbiome composition with health status, common chronic diseases, and institutionalization in vulnerable older adults. However, fewer studies have described microbiome changes in healthy older adults without major confounding diseases or conditions, and the impact of aging on the microbiome across different body sites remains unknown. Using 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing, we reconstructed the composition of oral and fecal microbiomes in young (23-32; mean = 25 years old) and older (69-94; mean = 77 years old) healthy community-dwelling research subjects. In both body sites, we identified changes in minor bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) between young and older subjects. However, the composition of the predominant bacterial species of the healthy older group in both microbiomes was not significantly different from that of the young cohort, which suggests that dominant bacterial species are relatively stable with healthy aging. In addition, the relative abundance of potentially pathogenic genera, such as

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