What about the environment? Leveraging multi-omic datasets to characterize the environment's role in human health

Kristin Passero; Shefali Setia-Verma; Kimberly McAllister; Arjun Manrai; Chirag Patel; Molly Hall

What about the environment? Leveraging multi-omic datasets to characterize the environment's role in human health

Pac Symp Biocomput. 2021:26:309-315.

Authors

Kristin Passero¹, Shefali Setia-Verma², Kimberly McAllister³, Arjun Manrai⁴, Chirag Patel⁵, Molly Hall⁶

Affiliations

¹ Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
² Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
³ Genes, Environment, and Health Branch, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233 (MD EC-21), Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
⁴ Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
⁵ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
⁶ Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.

PMID: 34409132
PMCID: PMC8323787

Abstract

The environment plays an important role in mediating human health. In this session we consider research addressing ways to overcome the challenges associated with studying the multifaceted and ever-changing environment. Environmental health research has a need for technological and methodological advances which will further our knowledge of how exposures precipitate complex phenotypes and exacerbate disease.

Keywords: Environment; Health Outcomes; Multi-omics.

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Environmental Health*
Humans
Phenotype

Grants and funding

K01 HL138259/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States