RT Journal
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
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2009 
FD December 01 
VO 19 
IS 12 
SP 2317 
OP 2323 
DO 10.1101/gr.096651.109 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/12/2317.abstract 
AB 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.