Exploring the gut microbiota in patients with pre-diabetes and treatment naïve diabetes type 2 - a pilot study.

"availability of data and materials the sequence datasets (16s rrna sequences) generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in ddbj/embl/genbank under the accession khuv00000000. availability of data and materials the sequence datasets (16s rrna sequences) generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in ddbj/embl/genbank under the accession khuv00000000"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by the Norwegian Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics South East (REC South East), PB 1130, Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway (application reference number 2018/652), and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsAuthors from GA (CC, KrG, KG, GTK and KHK) are employees of Genetic Analysis AS. CC and KHK are shareholders in Genetic Analysis AS. Authors from BIOASTER (PL, AS) declare no competing interests. Competing interests Authors from GA (CC, KrG, KG, GTK and KHK) are employees of Genetic Analysis AS. CC and KHK are shareholders in Genetic Analysis AS. Authors from BIOASTER (PL, AS) declare no competing interests."

"Funding Declaration of funding interests: This study was funded by an unrestricted grant from Bio-Rad Inc. and Genetic Analysis AS."