Open AccessMetabolomics and adductomics of newborn bloodspots to retrospectively assess the early-life exposome
Author(s) -
Lauren Petrick,
Karan Uppal,
William E. Funk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
current opinion in pediatrics, with evaluated medline/current opinion in pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.817
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1080-8116
pISSN - 1040-8703
DOI - 10.1097/mop.0000000000000875
Subject(s) - exposome , medicine , epidemiology , metabolomics , medline , population , data science , intensive care medicine , environmental health , bioinformatics , pathology , biology , computer science , biochemistry
Exposomics studies can measure health-relevant chemical exposures during a lifetime and estimate the 'internal' environment. However, sampling limitations make these features difficult to capture directly during the critical neonatal time period.