Diet-omics in the Study of Urban and Rural Crohn disease Evolution (SOURCE) cohort

Tzipi Braun, Rui Feng, Amnon Amir, Nina Levhar, Hila Shacham, Ren Mao, Rotem Hadar, Itamar Toren, Yadid Algavi, Kathleen Abu-Saad, Shuoyu Zhuo, Gilat Efroni, Alona Malik, Orit Picard, Miri Yavzori, Bella Agranovich, Ta Chiang Liu, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, Lee Denson, Ofra Kalter-LeiboviciEyal Gottlieb, Elhanan Borenstein, Eran Elinav, Minhu Chen, Shomron Ben-Horin, Yael Haberman*

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Abstract

Crohn disease (CD) burden has increased with globalization/urbanization, and the rapid rise is attributed to environmental changes rather than genetic drift. The Study Of Urban and Rural CD Evolution (SOURCE, n = 380) has considered diet-omics domains simultaneously to detect complex interactions and identify potential beneficial and pathogenic factors linked with rural-urban transition and CD. We characterize exposures, diet, ileal transcriptomics, metabolomics, and microbiome in newly diagnosed CD patients and controls in rural and urban China and Israel. We show that time spent by rural residents in urban environments is linked with changes in gut microbial composition and metabolomics, which mirror those seen in CD. Ileal transcriptomics highlights personal metabolic and immune gene expression modules, that are directly linked to potential protective dietary exposures (coffee, manganese, vitamin D), fecal metabolites, and the microbiome. Bacteria-associated metabolites are primarily linked with host immune modules, whereas diet-linked metabolites are associated with host epithelial metabolic functions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3764
JournalNature Communications
Volume15
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2024

Funding

FundersFunder number
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Tel Aviv University
Israel Science Foundation785/22
Israel Science Foundation
Israel Science, Culture, and Sport4361
European Research Council758313
European Research Council
Israeli Centers for Research Excellence41/11
Israeli Centers for Research Excellence
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesP30 DK078392
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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