TY  - JOUR
A1  - The NIH HMP Working Group
A1  - Peterson, Jane
A1  - Garges, Susan
A1  - Giovanni, Maria
A1  - McInnes, Pamela
A1  - Wang, Lu
A1  - Schloss, Jeffery A.
A1  - Bonazzi, Vivien
A1  - McEwen, Jean E.
A1  - Wetterstrand, Kris A.
A1  - Deal, Carolyn
A1  - Baker, Carl C.
A1  - Di Francesco, Valentina
A1  - Howcroft, T. Kevin
A1  - Karp, Robert W.
A1  - Lunsford, R. Dwayne
A1  - Wellington, Christopher R.
A1  - Belachew, Tsegahiwot
A1  - Wright, Michael
A1  - Giblin, Christina
A1  - David, Hagit
A1  - Mills, Melody
A1  - Salomon, Rachelle
A1  - Mullins, Christopher
A1  - Akolkar, Beena
A1  - Begg, Lisa
A1  - Davis, Cindy
A1  - Grandison, Lindsey
A1  - Humble, Michael
A1  - Khalsa, Jag
A1  - Little, A. Roger
A1  - Peavy, Hannah
A1  - Pontzer, Carol
A1  - Portnoy, Matthew
A1  - Sayre, Michael H.
A1  - Starke-Reed, Pamela
A1  - Zakhari, Samir
A1  - Read, Jennifer
A1  - Watson, Bracie
A1  - Guyer, Mark
T1  - The NIH Human Microbiome Project
Y1  - 2009/12/01 
JF  - Genome Research 
JO  - Genome Research 
SP  - 2317 
EP  - 2323 
DO  - 10.1101/gr.096651.109 
VL  - 19 
IS  - 12 
UR  - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/12/2317.abstract 
N2  - The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), funded as an initiative of the NIH Roadmap for Biomedical Research (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov), is a multi-component community resource. The goals of the HMP are: (1) to take advantage of new, high-throughput technologies to characterize the human microbiome more fully by studying samples from multiple body sites from each of at least 250 “normal” volunteers; (2) to determine whether there are associations between changes in the microbiome and health/disease by studying several different medical conditions; and (3) to provide both a standardized data resource and new technological approaches to enable such studies to be undertaken broadly in the scientific community. The ethical, legal, and social implications of such research are being systematically studied as well. The ultimate objective of the HMP is to demonstrate that there are opportunities to improve human health through monitoring or manipulation of the human microbiome. The history and implementation of this new program are described here. 
ER  -