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Metagenome

Definition
AI-generated

Collective genomic content of a mixed microbial community sampled from an environment or body site without culturing individual strains.

Topics
Sequencing and omics tech
Related
Metagenomics Microbiome Sequencing

Why it matters in GWAS

Bioinformatics methods determine how variants, expression, and epigenetic state are measured and summarized—shaping GWAS covariates, multi-omic integration, and functional follow-up.

Example usage

"Downstream interpretation uses Metagenome to link statistical findings to biological context."

Metagenomics Microbiome Sequencing
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Lesk AM. (2019). Introduction to Bioinformatics. Oxford University Press.
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