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Kennedy KM, Plagemann A, Sommer J, Hofmann M, Henrich W, Barrett JF, Surette MG, Atkinson S, Braun T, Sloboda DM. Parity modulates impact of BMI and gestational weight gain on gut microbiota in human pregnancy. Gut Microbes 2023; 15:2259316. [PMID: 37811749 PMCID: PMC10563629 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2023.2259316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Dysregulation of maternal adaptations to pregnancy due to high pre-pregnancy BMI (pBMI) or excess gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with worsened health outcomes for mothers and children. Whether the gut microbiome contributes to these adaptations is unclear. We longitudinally investigated the impact of pBMI and GWG on the pregnant gut microbiome. We show that the gut microbiota of participants with higher pBMI changed less over the course of pregnancy in primiparous but not multiparous participants. This suggests that previous pregnancies may have persistent impacts on maternal adaptations to pregnancy. This ecological memory appears to be passed on to the next generation, as parity modulated the impact of maternal GWG on the infant gut microbiome. This work supports a role of the gut microbiome in maternal adaptations to pregnancy and highlights the need for longitudinal sampling and accounting for parity as key considerations for studies of the microbiome in pregnancy and infants. Understanding how these factors contribute to and shape maternal health is essential for the development of interventions impacting the microbiome, including pre/probiotics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Katherine M. Kennedy
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Department of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Department of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Department of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Department of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Department of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Veeraraghavan B, Kesavelu D, Yadav B. Gut Microbiota Composition in Indian and Western Infants (0–24 Months): A Systematic Review. NUTRITION AND DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS 2023. [DOI: 10.2147/nds.s402256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/08/2023] Open
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Dwiyanto J, Ayub Q, Lee SM, Foo SC, Chong CW, Rahman S. Geographical separation and ethnic origin influence the human gut microbial composition: a meta-analysis from a Malaysian perspective. Microb Genom 2021; 7:000619. [PMID: 34463609 PMCID: PMC8549367 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Ethnicity is consistently reported as a strong determinant of human gut microbiota. However, the bulk of these studies are from Western countries, where microbiota variations are mainly driven by relatively recent migration events. Malaysia is a multicultural society, but differences in gut microbiota persist across ethnicities. We hypothesized that migrant ethnic groups continue to share fundamental gut traits with the population in the country of origin due to shared cultural practices despite subsequent geographical separation. To test this hypothesis, the 16S rRNA gene amplicons from 16 studies comprising three major ethnic groups in Malaysia were analysed, covering 636 Chinese, 248 Indian and 123 Malay individuals from four countries (China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia). A confounder-adjusted permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) detected a significant association between ethnicity and the gut microbiota (PERMANOVA R2=0.005, pseudo-F=2.643, P=0.001). A sparse partial least squares - discriminant analysis model trained using the gut microbiota of individuals from China, India and Indonesia (representation of Chinese, Indian and Malay ethnic group, respectively) showed a better-than-random performance in classifying Malaysian of Chinese descent, although the performance for Indian and Malay were modest (true prediction rate, Chinese=0.60, Indian=0.49, Malay=0.44). Separately, differential abundance analysis singled out Ligilactobacillus as being elevated in Indians. We postulate that despite the strong influence of geographical factors on the gut microbiota, cultural similarity due to a shared ethnic origin drives the presence of a shared gut microbiota composition. The interplay of these factors will likely depend on the circumstances of particular groups of migrants.
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- Jacky Dwiyanto
- School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
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- School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
- Monash University Malaysia Genomics Facility, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
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- School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
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- School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
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- School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
- Institute for Research, Development and Innovation, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
- Tropical Medicine and Biology Multidisciplinary Platform, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
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Berry ASF, Pierdon MK, Misic AM, Sullivan MC, O’Brien K, Chen Y, Murray SJ, Ramharack LA, Baldassano RN, Parsons TD, Beiting DP. Remodeling of the maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy is shaped by parity. MICROBIOME 2021; 9:146. [PMID: 34176489 PMCID: PMC8237508 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01089-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The maternal microbiome has emerged as an important factor in gestational health and outcome and is associated with risk of preterm birth and offspring morbidity. Epidemiological evidence also points to successive pregnancies-referred to as maternal parity-as a risk factor for preterm birth, infant mortality, and impaired neonatal growth. Despite the fact that both the maternal microbiome and parity are linked to maternal-infant health, the impact of parity on the microbiome remains largely unexplored, in part due to the challenges of studying parity in humans. RESULTS Using synchronized pregnancies and dense longitudinal monitoring of the microbiome in pigs, we describe a microbiome trajectory during pregnancy and determine the extent to which parity modulates this trajectory. We show that the microbiome changes reproducibly during gestation and that this remodeling occurs more rapidly as parity increases. At the time of parturition, parity was linked to the relative abundance of several bacterial species, including Treponema bryantii, Lactobacillus amylovorus, and Lactobacillus reuteri. Strain tracking carried out in 18 maternal-offspring "quadrads"-each consisting of one mother sow and three piglets-linked maternal parity to altered levels of Akkermansia muciniphila, Prevotella stercorea, and Campylobacter coli in the infant gut 10 days after birth. CONCLUSIONS Collectively, these results identify parity as an important environmental factor that modulates the gut microbiome during pregnancy and highlight the utility of a swine model for investigating the microbiome in maternal-infant health. In addition, our data show that the impact of parity extends beyond the mother and is associated with alterations in the community of bacteria that colonize the offspring gut early in life. The bacterial species we identified as parity-associated in the mother and offspring have been shown to influence host metabolism in other systems, raising the possibility that such changes may influence host nutrient acquisition or utilization. These findings, taken together with our observation that even subtle differences in parity are associated with microbiome changes, underscore the importance of considering parity in the design and analysis of human microbiome studies during pregnancy and in infants. Video abstract.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexander S. F. Berry
- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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- Department of Clinical Studies - New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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- Department of Clinical Studies - New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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