bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.16.448511; this version posted June 17, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Impacts of dietary exposure to pesticides on faecal microbiome 2 metabolism in adult twins 3 4 Robin Mesnage1, Ruth C E Bowyer2, Souleiman El Balkhi3, Franck Saint-Marcoux3, Arnaud 5 Gardere3, Quinten Raymond Ducarmon4, Anoecim Robecca Geelen4, Romy Daniëlle Zwittink4, 6 Dimitris Tsoukalas5, Evangelia Sarandi5, Efstathia I. Paramera6, Timothy Spector2, Claire J Steves2, 7 Michael N Antoniou1* 8 9 1 Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, 10 Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK. 11 12 2 Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, London, UK 13 14 3 Service de pharmacologie, toxicologie et pharmacovigilance, UF Toxicologie analytique environnementale 15 et santé au travail, CHU de Limoges, Limoges, France 16 17 4 Center for Microbiome Analyses and Therapeutics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The 18 Netherlands 19 20 5 Metabolomic Medicine Clinic, Health Clinics for Autoimmune and Chronic Diseases, 10674 Athens, 21 Greece 22 23 6 NEOLAB S.A., Medical laboratory, 125 Michalakopoulu Str., 11527 Athens, Greece 24 25 26 *Correspondence:
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