Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

A scalable workflow to characterize the human exposome

  • Xin Hu,
  • Douglas I. Walker,
  • Yongliang Liang,
  • Matthew Ryan Smith,
  • Michael L. Orr,
  • Brian D. Juran,
  • Chunyu Ma,
  • Karan Uppal,
  • Michael Koval,
  • Greg S. Martin,
  • David C. Neujahr,
  • Carmen J. Marsit,
  • Young-Mi Go,
  • Kurt D. Pennell,
  • Gary W. Miller,
  • Konstantinos N. Lazaridis,
  • Dean P. Jones

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25840-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Humans are exposed to millions of chemicals but mass spectrometry (MS)-based targeted biomonitoring assays are usually limited to a few hundred known hazards. Here, the authors develop a workflow for MS-based untargeted exposome profiling of known and unidentified environmental chemicals.