ExposomePub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1093/exposome/osab006
Emma L. Schymanski, Evan E. Bolton
{"title":"FAIR-ifying the Exposome Journal: Templates for Chemical Structures and Transformations","authors":"Emma L. Schymanski, Evan E. Bolton","doi":"10.1093/exposome/osab006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/exposome/osab006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The exposome, the totality of lifetime exposures, is a new and highly complex paradigm for health and disease. Tackling this challenge requires an effort well beyond single individuals or laboratories, where every piece of the puzzle will be vital. The launch of this new Exposome journal coincides with the evolution of the exposome through its teenage years and into a growing maturity in an increasingly open and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) world. This letter discusses how both authors and the Exposome journal alike can help increase the FAIRness of the chemical structural information and the associated metadata in the journal, aiming to capture more details about the chemistry of exposomics. The proposed chemical structure template can serve as an interoperable supplementary format that is made accessible through the website and more findable by linking the DOI of this data file to the article DOI metadata, supporting further reuse. An additional Transformations template provides authors with a means to connect predecessor (parent, substrate) molecules to successor (transformation product, metabolite) molecules and thus provide FAIR connections between observed (i.e., experimental) chemical exposures and biological responses, to help improve the public knowledgebase on exposome-related transformations. These connections are vital to extend current biochemical knowledge and to fulfil the current Exposome definition of “the cumulative measure of environmental influences and associated biological responses throughout the lifespan including exposures from the environment, diet, behaviour, and endogenous processes”.","PeriodicalId":73005,"journal":{"name":"Exposome","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46075507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ExposomePub Date : 2021-10-07eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1093/exposome/osab004
Ming Kei Chung, Matthew Ryan Smith, Yufei Lin, Douglas I Walker, Dean Jones, Chirag J Patel, Sek Won Kong
{"title":"Plasma metabolomics of autism spectrum disorder and influence of shared components in proband families.","authors":"Ming Kei Chung, Matthew Ryan Smith, Yufei Lin, Douglas I Walker, Dean Jones, Chirag J Patel, Sek Won Kong","doi":"10.1093/exposome/osab004","DOIUrl":"10.1093/exposome/osab004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been increasing in the United States in the past decades. The exact mechanisms remain enigmatic, and diagnosis of the disease still relies primarily on assessment of behavior. We first used a case-control design (75 idiopathic cases and 29 controls, enrolled at Boston Children's Hospital from 2007-2012) to identify plasma biomarkers of ASD through a metabolome-wide association study approach. Then we leveraged a family-based design (31 families) to investigate the influence of shared genetic and environmental components on the autism-associated features. Using untargeted high-resolution mass spectrometry metabolomics platforms, we detected 19 184 features. Of these, 191 were associated with ASD (false discovery rate < 0.05). We putatively annotated 30 features that had an odds ratio (OR) between <0.01 and 5.84. An identified endogenous metabolite, O-phosphotyrosine, was associated with an extremely low autism odds (OR 0.17; 95% confidence interval 0.06-0.39). We also found that glutathione metabolism was associated with ASD (<i>P</i> = 0.048). Correlations of the significant features between proband and parents were low (median = 0.09). Of the 30 annotated features, the median correlations within families (proband-parents) were -0.15 and 0.24 for the endogenous and exogenous metabolites, respectively. We hypothesize that, without feature identification, family-based correlation analysis of autism-associated features can be an alternative way to assist the prioritization of potentially diagnostic features. A panel of ASD diagnostic metabolic markers with high specificity could be derived upon further studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":73005,"journal":{"name":"Exposome","volume":"1 1","pages":"osab004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/bb/e2/osab004.PMC8739333.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9403684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ExposomePub Date : 2021-09-20DOI: 10.1093/exposome/osab003
C. M. Vitale, E. Price, G. Miller, A. David, J. Antignac, R. Barouki, J. Klánová
{"title":"Analytical strategies for chemical exposomics: exploring limits and feasibility","authors":"C. M. Vitale, E. Price, G. Miller, A. David, J. Antignac, R. Barouki, J. Klánová","doi":"10.1093/exposome/osab003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/exposome/osab003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Tackling the challenges of chemical exposomics will require the implementation of diverse analytical strategies and technological advancements. Herein, high-resolution mass spectrometry-based methods applied in current chemical exposome studies have been surveyed and are shown to be limited. Notably, liquid chromatography separations almost exclusively employ reversed-phase C18 columns using water-methanol gradients with formic acid additive, whilst gas chromatography is underexploited in the field at this stage. A systematic evaluation of strategies applied in related disciplines (i.e. metabolomics, proteomics, multi-residue trace analysis) was undertaken to provide practical guidance for the development of chemical exposomics. The approaches were assessed on the basis of their costs (i.e. capital expenditure, overhead and maintenance fees, expertise required, consumables) and potential benefits (i.e. improvements to sensitivity, coverage, reproducibility, throughput, ease of use) to prioritize those with promise for chemical exposomics application. Alongside a need for technological investments (e.g. advanced hardware updates), numerous low cost strategies showed high potential benefits (e.g. different column phases, enhanced sample fractionation) and are feasible for rapid adoption.","PeriodicalId":73005,"journal":{"name":"Exposome","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47664335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ExposomePub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1093/exposome/osab002
Gary W Miller
{"title":"Integrating the exposome into a multi-omic research framework.","authors":"Gary W Miller","doi":"10.1093/exposome/osab002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/exposome/osab002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73005,"journal":{"name":"Exposome","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10399725/pdf/nihms-1919561.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9945777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ExposomePub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-03-16DOI: 10.1093/exposome/osab001
Gary W Miller
{"title":"Exposome: a new field, a new journal.","authors":"Gary W Miller","doi":"10.1093/exposome/osab001","DOIUrl":"10.1093/exposome/osab001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73005,"journal":{"name":"Exposome","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10399727/pdf/nihms-1919558.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9945779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}