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ReviewEnvironmental research2021

Semantic standards of external exposome data.

Hansi Zhang, Hui Hu, Matthew Diller, William R Hogan, Mattia Prosperi, Yi Guo, Jiang Bian

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In one paragraph

Review in Environmental research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Global research trends on the human exposome: a bibliometric analysis (2005-2024).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025
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  6. Geospatial Science for the Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer in the Exposome Era.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024
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  9. Systematic design and data-driven evaluation of social determinants of health ontology (SDoHO).Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023
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  13. Methodological Challenges in Spatial and Contextual Exposome-Health Studies.Critical reviews in environmental science and technology · 2023
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  14. A Narrative Literature Review of Natural Language Processing Applied to the Occupational Exposome.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Review
  15. The OneFlorida Data Trust: a centralized, translational research data infrastructure of statewide scope.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hansi ZhangDepartment of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Hui HuDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Matthew DillerDepartment of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
William R HoganDepartment of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Mattia ProsperiDepartment of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Cancer Informatics Shared Resource, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Yi GuoDepartment of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Cancer Informatics Shared Resource, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Jiang BianDepartment of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Cancer Informatics Shared Resource, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, USA. Electronic address: bianjiang@ufl.edu.
University of Florida · USUniversity of Florida Health · US

Funding

NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001427NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES032762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An individual's health and conditions are associated with a complex interplay between the individual's genetics and his or her exposures to both internal and external environments. Much attention has been placed on characterizing of the genome in the past; nevertheless, genetics only account for about 10% of an individual's health conditions, while the remaining appears to be determined by environmental factors and gene-environment interactions. To comprehensively understand the causes of diseases and prevent them, environmental exposures, especially the external exposome, need to be systematically explored. However, the heterogeneity of the external exposome data sources (e.g., same exposure variables using different nomenclature in different data sources, or vice versa, two variables have the same or similar name but measure different exposures in reality) increases the difficulty of analyzing and understanding the associations between environmental exposures and health outcomes. To solve the issue, the development of semantic standards using an ontology-driven approach is inevitable because ontologies can (1) provide a unambiguous and consistent understanding of the variables in heterogeneous data sources, and (2) explicitly express and model the context of the variables and relationships between those variables. We conducted a review of existing ontology for the external exposome and found only four relevant ontologies. Further, the four existing ontologies are limited: they (1) often ignored the spatiotemporal characteristics of external exposome data, and (2) were developed in isolation from other conceptual frameworks (e.g., the socioecological model and the social determinants of health). Moving forward, the combination of multi-domain and multi-scale data (i.e., genome, phenome and exposome at different granularity) and different conceptual frameworks is the basis of health outcomes research in the future.

Indexed as

ExposomeCausalityEnvironmental ExposureFemaleHumansMaleSemanticsEnvironmental exposureExternal exposomeOntologySemantic standard

Identifiers

PMID33901445
PMCPMC8597904
OpenAlexW3159951159

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