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Leo Lahti

University of Helsinki · FI
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Physiology
Research interest
Research interests include Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.
h-index
50
citations
36,789
works
352
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in the FINRISK 2002 cohort
Nature Communications 2025cited by 10position: lastdoi
Gut Microbiome as a Risk Factor for Future CKD
Kidney International Reports 2025cited by 6position: middledoi
Examining the healthy human microbiome concept
Nature Reviews Microbiology 2024cited by 130position: middledoi
Microbiome confounders and quantitative profiling challengepredicted microbial targets in colorectal cancer development
Nature Medicine 2024cited by 101position: middledoi
A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society
Microbial Biotechnology 2024cited by 33position: middledoi
Integration of polygenic and gut metagenomic risk prediction for common diseases
Nature Aging 2024cited by 23position: middledoi
Greengenes2 unifies microbial data in a single reference tree
Nature Biotechnology 2023cited by 563position: middledoi
Gut microbiome and atrial fibrillation—results from a large population-based study
EBioMedicine 2023cited by 80position: middledoi
Advancing microbiome research with machine learning: key findings from the ML4Microbiome COST action
Frontiers in Microbiology 2023cited by 35position: middledoi
Combined effects of host genetics and diet on human gut microbiota and incident disease in a single population cohort
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 545position: middledoi
Gut Microbiome Composition Is Predictive of Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a Population Cohort of 5,572 Finnish Adults
Diabetes Care 2022cited by 127position: middledoi
Phylogeny-Aware Analysis of Metagenome Community Ecology Based on Matched Reference Genomes while Bypassing Taxonomy
mSystems 2022cited by 124position: middledoi
Early prediction of incident liver disease using conventional risk factors and gut-microbiome-augmented gradient boosting
Cell Metabolism 2022cited by 86position: middledoi
The gut microbiome is a significant risk factor for future chronic lung disease
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2022cited by 62position: middledoi
Quantifying the impact of ecological memory on the dynamics of interacting communities
PLoS Computational Biology 2022cited by 41position: lastdoi
Taxonomic signatures of cause-specific mortality risk in human gut microbiome
Nature Communications 2021cited by 167position: middledoi
Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Human Microbiome Studies: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions
Frontiers in Microbiology 2021cited by 112position: middledoi
Links between gut microbiome composition and fatty liver disease in a large population sample
Gut Microbes 2021cited by 72position: middledoi
Association Between the Gut Microbiota and Blood Pressure in a Population Cohort of 6953 Individuals
Journal of the American Heart Association 2020cited by 123position: middledoi
Eicosanoid Inflammatory Mediators Are Robustly Associated With Blood Pressure in the General Population
Journal of the American Heart Association 2020cited by 24position: middledoi
Microbial communities as dynamical systems
Current Opinion in Microbiology 2018cited by 189position: middledoi
Signatures of ecological processes in microbial community time series
Microbiome 2018cited by 106position: middledoi
Multi-stability and the origin of microbial community types
The ISME Journal 2017cited by 149position: middledoi
Comparative gut microbiota and resistome profiling of intensive care patients receiving selective digestive tract decontamination and healthy subjects
Microbiome 2017cited by 130position: middledoi
Intestinal microbiome landscaping: insight in community assemblage and implications for microbial modulation strategies
FEMS Microbiology Reviews 2016cited by 264position: middledoi
Fat, fibre and cancer risk in African Americans and rural Africans
Nature Communications 2015cited by 965position: middledoi
Metagenomics meets time series analysis: unraveling microbial community dynamics
Current Opinion in Microbiology 2015cited by 439position: middledoi
Impact of a wastewater treatment plant on microbial community composition and function in a hyporheic zone of a eutrophic river
Scientific Reports 2015cited by 98position: middledoi
Binning metagenomic contigs by coverage and composition
Nature Methods 2014cited by 2,926position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Aki S. Havulinna · University of Helsinki13 papers (2020–2025)Veikko Salomaa · Varsinais-Suomen Sairaanhoitopiiri13 papers (2020–2025)Teemu Niiranen · University of Turku13 papers (2020–2025)Rob Knight · University of California San Diego11 papers (2020–2025)Michael Inouye · Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute11 papers (2020–2025)Pekka Jousilahti · University of Helsinki11 papers (2020–2024)Guillaume Méric · Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute8 papers (2021–2025)Mohit Jain · Foundation University8 papers (2020–2023)Jon G. Sanders · Cornell University7 papers (2020–2024)Yang Liu · Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute6 papers (2021–2024)Susan Cheng · University of San Francisco6 papers (2020–2023)Matti O. Ruuskanen · University of Turku5 papers (2021–2025)Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza · University of California, San Francisco5 papers (2021–2024)Karoline Faust · KU Leuven5 papers (2015–2022) · 5 papers (2015–2022)Qiyun Zhu · Central South University5 papers (2022–2024)Joonatan Palmu · University of Turku4 papers (2020–2025)Karenina Sanders · University of California San Diego3 papers (2020–2023) · 3 papers (2021–2022)Aaro Salosensaari · University of Turku3 papers (2020–2021)