What About the Environment? Leveraging Multi-omic Datasets to Characterize the Environment's Role in Human Health

Kristin Passero¹, Shefali Setia-Verma², Kimberly McAllister³, Arjun Manrai^4,5, Chirag Patel⁵, Molly Hall⁶

¹Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
²Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania
³Genes, Environment, and Health Branch Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
⁴Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital
⁵Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
⁶Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
Email: kxp642@psu.edu, shefali.setiaverma@pennmedicine.upenn.edu, mcallis2@niehs.nih.gov, manrai@post.harvard.edu, chirag@hms.harvard.edu, mah546@psu.edu

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 26:309-315(2021)

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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.