@e_considine @ellegist Good points. "In the home" was a proxy for people you have very close contact with. Like kids will share viruses with classmates, but not intestinal microbiomes. You have to live with people for that. Microbiomes have significant
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@KYT_ThatsME I'm just gonna leave this here. Start this early enough and you can have a nice twin VS toddler VS parents longitudinal study on your hands! https://t.co/JJILgqqN9V
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@dinazielinski Interesting point, spurred me to do a bit of searching. It's a few years old, but this paper suggests that a child's microbiome is no more similar to its mother's than its father's: https://t.co/04usDNMxBo
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