The exposome: molecules to populations

MM Niedzwiecki, DI Walker… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Derived from the term exposure, the exposome is an omic-scale characterization of the
nongenetic drivers of health and disease. With the genome, it defines the phenome of an …

The placental epigenome as a molecular link between prenatal exposures and fetal health outcomes through the DOHaD hypothesis

S Lapehn, AG Paquette - Current environmental health reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD)
hypothesis posits that the perinatal environment can impact fetal and later life health. The …

Cadmium: Toxic effects on placental and embryonic development

HX Geng, L Wang - Environmental toxicology and pharmacology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cadmium is a non-essential trace metal that has strong teratogenic and mutagenic effects in
living organisms. The content is more highly enriched in women than in men and can enter …

Multi-omics signatures of the human early life exposome

L Maitre, M Bustamante, C Hernández-Ferrer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Environmental exposures during early life play a critical role in life-course health, yet the
molecular phenotypes underlying environmental effects on health are poorly understood. In …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental cadmium exposure induces fetal growth restriction via triggering PERK-regulated mitophagy in placental trophoblasts

HL Zhu, XT Shi, XF Xu, YW **ong, SJ Yi, GX Zhou… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd), an environmental toxicant, is positively associated with fetal growth
restriction (FGR). However, the mechanism by which gestational exposure to Cd induces …

Exposure to cadmium induces neuroinflammation and impairs ciliogenesis in hESC-derived 3D cerebral organoids

Y Huang, Y Dai, M Li, L Guo, C Cao, Y Huang… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) is an environmental heavy metal toxicant with central nervous system toxicity
and has a greater negative impact on fetal neurodevelopment. However, the causative …

Placental genomics mediates genetic associations with complex health traits and disease

A Bhattacharya, AN Freedman, V Avula… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the master regulator in utero, the placenta is core to the Developmental Origins of Health
and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis but is historically understudied. To identify placental gene …

Praegnatio perturbatio—impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals

V Padmanabhan, W Song… - Endocrine …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The burden of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth and low birth weight is
considerable across the world. Several risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes have …

A machine learning approach to brain epigenetic analysis reveals kinases associated with Alzheimer's disease

Y Huang, X Sun, H Jiang, S Yu, C Robins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors; thus,
brain epigenomic alterations may provide insights into AD pathogenesis. Multiple array …

Prenatal air pollution exposure and placental DNA methylation changes: implications on fetal development and future disease susceptibility

T Ghazi, P Naidoo, RN Naidoo, AA Chuturgoon - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concept postulates that in utero
exposures influence fetal programming and health in later life. Throughout pregnancy, the …