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Research Article | Host-Microbe BiologyThe Gut Microbiota of Healthy Aged Chinese Is Similar to That of the Healthy YoungWe report the large-scale use of compositional data analysis to establish a baseline microbiota composition in an extremely healthy cohort of the Chinese population. This baseline will serve for comparison for future cohorts with chronic or acute disease. In addition to the expected difference in the microbiota of children and adults, we found that the microbiota of the elderly in this population was similar in almost all respects to...