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Record W4413427714 · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2025.109741

Metabolome informs about the chemical exposome and links to brain health

2025· review· en· W4413427714 on OpenAlexaff
Matej Orešič, Naama Karu, Haoqi Nina Zhao, Arthur Moseley, Thomas Hankemeier, David S. Wishart, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Oliver Fiehn, Tuulia Hyötyläinen, Rima Kaddurah Daouk

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironment International · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHealth, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNational Institute on Aging
KeywordsExposomeMetabolomeMedicineData scienceNeuroscienceComputational biologyEnvironmental healthPsychologyBiologyBioinformaticsMetabolomicsComputer science

Abstract

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The metabolome is an intermediate phenotype, summarizing the profile of all small molecules (<1.5 kDa) in biospecimens. The metabolome provides a readout for the net influence of the chemical exposome, diet, gut microbiome, and genome on human health. Metabolic changes observed in exposome studies may thus provide clues about adverse outcome pathways related to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, cognitive impairment and other neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Whilst the number of human cohort studies including both metabolomic and exposomic profiles is increasing, they are particularly limited in the domain of neurological conditions. Environmental exposures and chemical toxicants are known to have significant effects on the brain, gut microbiome, and gut-brain axis. Environmental chemicals of greatest interest include bisphenols, phthalates, persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), heavy metals, chemicals from household products and pesticides/herbicides; all of which may increase the risk of AD as they impact relevant biochemical mechanisms, especially with chronic exposure. In this review we describe how the chemical exposome can be assessed, including the approach our consortium is taking in the context of AD. Further, we review the current evidence about the impact of the chemical exposome on cognition as well as its influence on the risk and pathogenesis of AD. Finally, we highlight our approach to study the exposome in AD as part of large national and international collaborative efforts on the topic.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.040

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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