Environmental and genetic predictors of whole blood mercury and selenium concentrations in pregnant women in a UK birth cohort.

Kyle Dack, Peiyuan Huang, Caroline M Taylor, Dheeraj Rai, Sarah J Lewis

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Article in Environmental advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kyle DackMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Peiyuan HuangMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Caroline M TaylorCentre for Academic Child Health, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Dheeraj RaiMedical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Sarah J LewisPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

University of Bristol · GBMedical Research Council · GB

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Medical Research Council MC_UU_00011/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_00032/1

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is evidence that tissue concentrations of mercury (Hg) and selenium (Se) are predicted by numerous dietary, sociodemographic, environmental, and genetic factors. This study aimed to estimate the relative importance of predictors of Hg and Se concentrations in blood samples taken from pregnant women. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) in the UK measured whole blood Hg and Se concentrations in 3,972 pregnant women. We identified 30 potential predictors of Hg and 24 of Se, which were evaluated using cross-validated random forests to identify the optimal models for predictive power. The relative importance of individual variables was estimated by averaging the added-R

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ALSPACMercuryPredictorsPregnant womenSeleniumVariance

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PMID38562418

DOI10.1016/j.envadv.2023.100469

PMCPMC10951965

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