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The composition of gut microbiota is influenced by exogenous and endogenous factors. While diet and host genetics have the largest influence on the makeup of microbiota, several other factors contribute to the selection of the bacterial species that live within the human gut (grey arrows). In turn, the gut microbiota is able to interact and influence some of those factors (blue arrows).
