Maternal influences on infant gut microbiome and health.

The establishment of the infant gut microbiome is critical for later health 1,2 , yet how it is shaped by maternal and early-life factors remains unclear.

The establishment of the infant gut microbiome is critical for later health 1,2 , yet how it is shaped by maternal and early-life factors remains unclear. Here we metagenomically sequenced 4,526 longitudinal faecal samples from 714 mother-infant pairs in the Dutch birth cohort…