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An innovative method for probing the genomes of the vast community of microorganisms that inhabit the human gut provides an alternative approach to identifying risk factors for type 2 diabetes. See Letter p.55

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Figure 1: Mining the metagenome.

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  1. Julia Oh and Julia A. Segre are at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4442, USA.,

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Oh, J., Segre, J. Resident risks. Nature 490, 44–46 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/490044a

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