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ArticleExposome2025

A statistical workflow for analyzing the untargeted chemical exposome and metabolome in epidemiologic studies using high-dimensional mixture methods.

Anna S Young, Chris Gennings, Stephanie M Eick, Donghai Liang, Douglas I Walker

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5 authors.

Anna S YoungGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4406
Chris GenningsDepartment of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6058-5907
Stephanie M EickGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6695-3291
Donghai LiangGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7311-2298
Douglas I WalkerGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-398X

Funding

Statistical Services and Methods Development ResourceU2CES026555 · NIEHS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI GENNINGS, CHRIS · 2015 to 2025
$26.4M
The Mount Sinai Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental ExposuresP30ES023515 · NIEHS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Robert O Wright · 2014 to 2026
$21.3M
Air pollution, the blood and brain metabolome and their effects on Alzheimer's disease and related dementiasR01AG087250 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Anke Huels, Donghai Liang · 2024 to 2026
$2.3M
Mapping the blood cancer exposome for environmental risk profiles of mature B-cell neoplasmsR01ES032831 · NIEHS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Douglas Ian Walker · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
The Omics and Mixtures Integration on Traffic exposure and Preterm Birth (OMIT-PTB) StudyR01ES035738 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Donghai Liang · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
Cumulative effects of persistent organic pollutants and non-chemical stressors on child developmentK01ES035082 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Stephanie Marie Eick · 2024 to 2026
$481k
Mapping the cosmetic chemical exposome and its role in female fertilityK99ES036289 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI YOUNG, ANNA SWIFT · 2024 to 2025
$251k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG087250NIEHS NIH HHS K01 ES035082NIEHS NIH HHS K99 ES036289NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES023515NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES032831NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES035738NIEHS NIH HHS U2C ES026555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans are exposed to upwards of thousands of chemicals simultaneously, but research has traditionally focused on the health effects of only one chemical at a time. Single-chemical analyses not only underestimate total health risk, but also ignore bias from multicollinearity and co-exposure confounding between chemicals. Advanced statistical mixture methods address these challenges and allow us to both estimate the cumulative health effect of chemical mixtures and identify the strongest chemical contributors. At the same time, untargeted chemical exposome profiling through high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) now supports measurement of over 100,000 chemical signals in biospecimens. However, most mixture methods cannot evaluate untargeted exposome data containing more chemical variables than samples. Weighted quantile sum regression with its recent random subsets implementation (WQS

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cumulative chemical mixturesdata scienceexposomicshigh-dimensional datamixture modelsmulti-omics

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PMID41245605
PMCPMC12611669

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