Composición de la microbiota intestinal y reparto de cepas en familias multiplex con trastorno del espectro autista

Wenqi Lu1,2, Oscar W H Wong3, Jie Zhu1,4

  • 1Microbiota I-Center (MagIC), Hong Kong SAR, China.

Nature communications
|February 26, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

El tipo de familia impacta significativamente la microbiota intestinal en niños con trastorno del espectro autista (TEA). Las familias multiplex con TEA muestran las composiciones de microbiota intestinal más distintas y una mayor similitud de la microbiota entre hermanos.

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