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ArticleComputers in biology and medicine2019

An Integrated Gaussian Graphical Model to evaluate the impact of exposures on metabolic networks.

Jai Woo Lee, Erika L Moen, Tracy Punshon, Anne G Hoen, Delisha Stewart, Hongzhe Li, Margaret R Karagas, Jiang Gui

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Article in Computers in biology and medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jai Woo LeeInstitute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Erika L MoenDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Tracy PunshonDepartment of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Anne G HoenDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Delisha StewartDepartment of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Hongzhe LiDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadephia, PA, USA.
Margaret R KaragasDepartment of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Jiang GuiDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA. Electronic address: jiang.gui@dartmouth.edu.
Dartmouth College · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

VARIATION IN BIOACCUMULATION AND BIOMAGNIFICATION OF METALS IN NORTHERN US LAKESP42ES007373 · NIEHS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI STANTON, BRUCE A. · 1995 to 2019
$52.0M
A prospective study of critical environmental exposures in formative early life that impact lifelong health in rural US children: the New Hampshire Birth Cohort StudyUH3OD023275 · OD · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI MARGARET Rita KARAGAS, Juliette Madan · 2018 to 2026
$44.3M
Relation Between In-utero Vitamin D and Immune Function in Early Childhood P20GM104416 · NIGMS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI KARAGAS, MARGARET RITA · 2013 to 2022
$23.7M
Project 3: Placental Biomarkers of Exposure and Outcome (Marsit)P01ES022832 · NIEHS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI MURRAY, CAROLYN J · 2013 to 2018
$4.7M
Training Program for Quantitative Population Sciences in CancerR25CA134286 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI KARAGAS, MARGARET RITA, TOSTESON, TOR D · 2009 to 2018
$3.0M
Multi-omic Functional Integration Using NetworksR01LM012723 · NLM · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI HOEN, ANNE GATEWOOD · 2017 to 2020
$1.4M
Bioinformatics strategies to relate age of onset with gene-gene interactionR01LM012012 · NLM · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI GUI, JIANG · 2015 to 2017
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS R25 CA134286NIEHS NIH HHS P01 ES022832NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES007373NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM104416NIH HHS UH3 OD023275NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012012NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012723
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Examining the effects of exogenous exposures on complex metabolic processes poses the unique challenge of identifying interactions among a large number of metabolites. Recent progress in the quantification of the metabolome through mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has given rise to high-dimensional biomedical data of specific metabolites that can be leveraged to study their effects in humans. These metabolic interactions can be evaluated using probabilistic graphical models (PGMs), which define conditional dependence and independence between components within and between heterogeneous biomedical datasets. This method allows for the detection and recovery of valuable but latent information that cannot be easily detected by other currently existing methods. Here, we develop a PGM method, referred to as an "Integrated Gaussian Graphical Model (IGGM)", to incorporate exposure concentrations of seven trace elements-arsenic (As), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), selenium (Se) and copper (Cu-into metabolic networks. We first conducted a simulation study demonstrating that the integration of trace elements into metabolomics data can improve the accuracy of detecting latent interactions of metabolites impacted by exposure in the network. We tested parameters such as sample size and the number of neighboring metabolites of a chosen trace element for their impact on the accuracy of detecting metabolite interactions. We then applied this method to measurements of cord blood plasma metabolites and placental trace elements collected from newborns in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study (NHBCS). We found that our approach can identify latent interactions among metabolites that are related to trace element concentrations. Application to similarly structured data may contribute to our understanding of the complex interplay between exposure-related metabolic interactions that are important for human health.

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Models, StatisticalComputer SimulationFemaleFetal BloodHumansInfant, NewbornMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMetabolomeMetabolomicsMetals, HeavyNormal DistributionPlacentaPregnancyTrace ElementsMetals, HeavyTrace ElementsData integrationGaussian graphical modelLassoMetabolic networkTrace element exposures

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PMID31521894
PMCPMC6817396
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