| Title |
More than 9,000,000 Unique Genes in Human Gut Bacterial Community: Estimating Gene Numbers Inside a Human Body
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, June 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0006074 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Xing Yang, Lu Xie, Yixue Li, Chaochun Wei |
| Abstract |
Estimating the number of genes in human genome has been long an important problem in computational biology. With the new conception of considering human as a super-organism, it is also interesting to estimate the number of genes in this human super-organism. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 196 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 186 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 18% |
| Researcher | 34 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 32 | 16% |
| Unknown | 38 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47 | 24% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 39 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 13% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 11 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 24 | 12% |
| Unknown | 42 | 21% |