Gut microbiota will be characterized using a commercial service, Second Genome, utilizing bacterial DNA extraction from stool samples and 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplification, followed by high-throughput sequencing. Taxonomic profiling on the Illumina MiSeq system is cycled to generate paired 250-bp reads in Second Genome's protocols. These longer read lengths provide high-quality full length-reads of the gene to ensure the most accurate classification available through sequencing technologies. Next generation sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating microbial communities in large sample sets.