2023
Urinary Paraben Concentrations and Associations with the Periconceptional Urinary Metabolome: Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomics Analyses of Participants from the Early Pregnancy Study
Vollmar A, Rattray N, Cai Y, Jain A, Yan H, Deziel N, Calafat A, Wilcox A, Jukic A, Johnson C. Urinary Paraben Concentrations and Associations with the Periconceptional Urinary Metabolome: Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomics Analyses of Participants from the Early Pregnancy Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 2023, 131: 097006. PMID: 37702489, PMCID: PMC10498870, DOI: 10.1289/ehp12125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUrinary paraben concentrationsDiet-related metabolitesEarly Pregnancy StudyUrinary metabolomePregnancy StudyParaben concentrationsReproductive functionMultivariable linear regressionFemale reproductive functionDietary exposure assessmentUltrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole timeMetabolomic analysisParaben exposureProspective cohortLiquid chromatography-quadrupole timeOrthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysisPericonceptional periodPotential confoundersUrinary concentrationsMetabolomic markersNutritional epidemiologyUnivariate statistical analysisExposure informationCritical windowUrine samples
2022
Hemoglobin normalization outperforms other methods for standardizing dried blood spot metabolomics: A comparative study
Jain A, Morris M, Lin EZ, Khan SA, Ma X, Deziel NC, Godri Pollitt KJ, Johnson CH. Hemoglobin normalization outperforms other methods for standardizing dried blood spot metabolomics: A comparative study. The Science Of The Total Environment 2022, 854: 158716. PMID: 36113793, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158716.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Beyond genomics: understanding exposotypes through metabolomics
Rattray NJW, Deziel NC, Wallach JD, Khan SA, Vasiliou V, Ioannidis JPA, Johnson CH. Beyond genomics: understanding exposotypes through metabolomics. Human Genomics 2018, 12: 4. PMID: 29373992, PMCID: PMC5787293, DOI: 10.1186/s40246-018-0134-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGene-environment interactionsChallenges of metabolomicsIntegration of genomicsHuman genomeMultiple genetic variantsGenetic variationGenomic technologiesAssociation studiesMetabolic traitsMetabolite productionMetabolic processesIndividual phenotypesMetabolome-wide association studyProtein synthesisHuman population levelGenetic variantsBiological impactGenomicsDisease mechanismsMetabolomic informationWealth of informationPopulation levelSmall moleculesMetabolomicsTraits