A scalable workflow to characterize the human exposome
Abstract
Complementing the genome with an understanding of the human exposome is an important challenge for contemporary science and technology. Tens of thousands of chemicals are used in commerce, yet cost for targeted environmental chemical analysis limits surveillance to a few hundred known hazards. To overcome limitations which prevent scaling to thousands of chemicals, we develop a single-step express liquid extraction and gas chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry analysis to operationalize the human exposome. We show that the workflow supports quantification of environmental chemicals in human plasma (200 µL) and tissue (≤100 mg) samples. The method also provides high resolution, sensitivity and selectivity for exposome epidemiology of mass spectral features without a priori knowledge of chemical identity. The simplicity of the method can facilitate harmonization of environmental biomonitoring between laboratories and enable population level human exposome research with limited sample volume.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Sep 22, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1038/s41467-021-25840-9
Entities
People
- Brian D. Juran
- Carmen Marsit
- Chunyu Ma
- David C. Neujahr
- Dean P. Jones
- Douglas I. Walker
- Gary W. Miller
- Greg S. Martin
- Karan Uppal
- Konstantinos N Lazaridis
- Kurt D. Pennell
- Matthew R Smith
- Michael Koval
- Michael L. Orr
- Xin Hu
- Yongliang Liang
- Young-mi Go
Organizations
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- United States Department of Defense
- United States Department of Health and Human Services