Global Landscape of Publicly Available Human Oral Microbiome Data

Researchers examined publicly available oral microbiome data and found significant geographic and sampling-type imbalances: samples were heavily concentrated in the United States and China, while low- and middle-income regions were underrepresented, and disease-relevant oral sites comprised less than 0.2% of datasets.

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