Bert‐Jan H. van den Born

The paper tracks ethnic differences in gut microbiota composition and function over six years in a multi-ethnic cohort, finding persistent disparities despite shared environment.

This paper improves cerebrovascular brain age predictions by harmonizing arterial spin labeling (ASL) features across multiple cohorts using various methods, showing that ASL-specific harmonization enhances model performance.

The paper identifies a widespread gut phage lineage, Ca. Heliusvirales, present in ancient and modern humans, and links its diversity to lifestyle and disease.

This study shows that gut-derived bacterial flagellin contributes to beta-cell inflammation and dysfunction in type 2 diabetes.