Much ado about nothing? - Off-target amplification can lead to false positive bacterial brain microbiome detection in healthy and Parkinson's disease individuals

Recent studies suggested the existence of (poly-)microbial infections in human brains. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we tested the hypothesis that there is a bacterial brain microbiome. We evaluated brain samples from healthy human subjects and individuals suffering from PD (olfactory bulb and pre-frontal cortex). We identified off-target amplification as a major confounding factor in low-bacterial/high-host-DNA scenarios.

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Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001006553	Off-target amplification can lead to false positive human brain microbiome detection. 16s rRNA amplicon samples from brain tissue of healthy and Parkinson's disease patients.		114

Publications	Citations
Much ado about nothing? Off-target amplification can lead to false-positive bacterial brain microbiome detection in healthy and Parkinson's disease individuals. Bedarf JR, Beraza N, Khazneh H, Özkurt E, Baker D, Borger V, Wüllner U, Hildebrand F. Microbiome 9: 2021 75	19