bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 25, 2023
Abstract
Growing
up
in
a
high
poverty
neighborhood
is
associated
with
elevated
risk
for
academic
challenges
and
health
problems.
Here,
we
take
data-driven
approach
to
exploring
how
measures
of
children’s
environments
relate
the
development
their
brain
structure
function
community
sample
children
between
ages
4
10
years.
We
constructed
exposomes
including
family
socioeconomic
status,
exposure
adversity,
geocoded
crime,
environmental
toxins.
connected
exposome
two
structural
(cortical
thickness
surface
area,
n
=
170)
functional
(participation
coefficient
clustering
coefficient,
130).
found
dense
connections
within
layers
sparse
layers.
Lower
income
was
thinner
visual
cortex,
consistent
theory
that
accelerated
detectable
early-developing
regions.
Greater
incidence
blood
lead
levels
greater
segregation
default
mode
network,
evidence
toxins
are
deposited
into
along
midline.
Our
study
demonstrates
utility
multilayer
network
analysis
bridge
neural
explanatory
better
understand
complexity
child
development.
Genes,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
15(11), P. 1457 - 1457
Published: Nov. 12, 2024
The
exposome
(e.g.,
totality
of
environmental
exposures)
and
its
role
in
Alzheimer's
Disease
Related
Dementias
(AD/ADRD)
are
increasingly
critical
areas
study.
However,
little
is
known
about
how
interventions
on
the
exposome,
including
personal
behavioral
modification
or
policy-level
interventions,
may
impact
AD/ADRD
disease
burden
at
population
level
real-world
settings
cost-effectiveness
interventions.
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 28, 2023
Abstract
Background
Allostatic
load
is
the
cumulative
“wear
and
tear”
on
body
due
to
chronic
adversity.
We
aimed
test
poly-environmental
(exposomic)
polygenic
contributions
allostatic
their
combined
contribution
early
adolescent
mental
health.
Methods
analyzed
data
N
=
5,035
diverse
youth
(mean
age
12)
from
Adolescent
Brain
Cognitive
Development
Study
(ABCD).
Using
dimensionality
reduction
method,
we
calculated
overall
score
(AL)
using
mass
index
[BMI],
waist
circumference,
blood
pressure,
glycemia,
cholesterol,
salivary
DHEA.
Childhood
exposomic
risk
was
quantified
multi-level
environmental
exposures
before
11.
Genetic
scores
(PRS)
for
metabolic
system
susceptibility
(type
2
diabetes
[T2D])
stress-related
psychiatric
disease
(major
depressive
disorder
[MDD]).
used
linear
mixed
effects
models
main,
additive,
interactive
of
(independent
variables)
AL
(dependent
variable).
Mediation
tested
mediating
role
pathway
Models
adjusted
demographics
genetic
principal
components.
Results
observed
disparities
in
with
non-Hispanic
White
having
significantly
lower
compared
Hispanic
Non-Hispanic
Black
youth.
In
sample,
childhood
burden
associated
adolescence
(beta=0.25,
95%CI
0.22-0.29,
P<.001).
European
ancestry
participants
(
n
=2,928),
both
T2D
depression
(T2D-PRS
beta=0.11,
0.07-0.14,
P<.001;
MDD-PRS
beta=0.05,
0.02-0.09,
P=.003).
Both
showed
significant
interaction
such
that,
greater
risk,
association
between
exposome
stronger.
partly
mediated
health
MDD-PRS,
fully
T2D-PRS.
Conclusions
can
be
anthropometric
biological
measures
mapped
risk.
Main
support
a
diathesis-stress
model.
Findings
suggest
that
considered
when
modeling
conditions.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 25, 2023
Abstract
Growing
up
in
a
high
poverty
neighborhood
is
associated
with
elevated
risk
for
academic
challenges
and
health
problems.
Here,
we
take
data-driven
approach
to
exploring
how
measures
of
children’s
environments
relate
the
development
their
brain
structure
function
community
sample
children
between
ages
4
10
years.
We
constructed
exposomes
including
family
socioeconomic
status,
exposure
adversity,
geocoded
crime,
environmental
toxins.
connected
exposome
two
structural
(cortical
thickness
surface
area,
n
=
170)
functional
(participation
coefficient
clustering
coefficient,
130).
found
dense
connections
within
layers
sparse
layers.
Lower
income
was
thinner
visual
cortex,
consistent
theory
that
accelerated
detectable
early-developing
regions.
Greater
incidence
blood
lead
levels
greater
segregation
default
mode
network,
evidence
toxins
are
deposited
into
along
midline.
Our
study
demonstrates
utility
multilayer
network
analysis
bridge
neural
explanatory
better
understand
complexity
child
development.