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Unraveling the Exposome

A Practical View

  • A field-defining volume containing both the background and latest advances in the science of the Exposome
  • Provides a state of the art on techniques and methodologies for measuring the human Exposome as well as an overview on statistical and computational techniques for characterizing the Exposome
  • Features chapters written by a “Who’s who” in this young but rapidly-growing field

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Utility of the Exposome Paradigm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Using Exposomics to Assess Cumulative Risks from Multiple Environmental Stressors

      • Martyn T. Smith, Cliona M. McHale, Rosemarie de la Rosa
      Pages 3-22
    3. The Public Health Exposome

      • Paul D. Juarez
      Pages 23-61
    4. The U.S. Military and the Exposome

      • Christopher Bradburne, John A. Lewis
      Pages 63-85
    5. Framing Fetal and Early Life Exposome Within Epidemiology

      • Jessica E. Laine, Oliver Robinson
      Pages 87-123
  3. Measuring the Internal Exposome

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Epigenetics and the Exposome

      • Michelle Plusquin, Nelly D. Saenen, Tim S. Nawrot
      Pages 127-146
    3. Metabonomics

      • Toby Athersuch
      Pages 147-181
    4. Transcriptomics within the Exposome Paradigm

      • D. A. Sarigiannis
      Pages 183-214
  4. Measuring Sources of Exposure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
    2. The Food Exposome

      • Augustin Scalbert, Inge Huybrechts, Marc J. Gunter
      Pages 217-245
    3. The Dust Exposome

      • I. R. Schultz, S. Cade, L. J. Kuo
      Pages 247-254
  5. Exposome Characterization Around the Globe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337
    2. HERCULES: An Academic Center to Support Exposome Research

      • Megan M. Niedzwiecki, Gary W. Miller
      Pages 339-348
    3. EXPOsOMICs: Meet-in-the-Middle and Network Perturbation

      • Christiana A. Demetriou, Davide Degli Esposti, Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Paolo Vineis
      Pages 349-392

About this book

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the science and application of the Exposome through seventeen chapters from leaders in the field. At just over ten years since the term was coined by Christopher Wild in 2005, this is the first, field-defining volume to offer a holistic picture of the important and growing field of Exposomics. 


The term “Exposome” describes the sum of all exposures (not only chemical) that an individual can receive over a lifetime from both exogenous sources (environmental contaminants, food, lifestyle, drugs, air, etc.) and endogenous sources (metabolism, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, chemicals synthesized by the microbiome, etc.). The first section of this book contains chapters that discuss how the Exposome is defined and how the concept fits into the fields of public health and epidemiology. The second section provides an overview of techniques and methods to measure the human Exposome. The third section contains methods and applications for measuring the Exposome through external exposures. Section four provides an overview on statistical and computational techniques- including big data analysis - for characterizing the Exposome. Section five presents a global collection of case studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Sonia Dagnino

  • The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Agilent Technologies, Baltimore, USA

    Anthony Macherone

About the editors

Dr. Sonia Dagnino is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department at Imperial College London, School of Public Health. Dr. Sonia Dagnino's research is focused on the development of new methodologies for the understanding of the exposome and its implications for human health. Dr. Dagnino is actively engaged in several research projects on the exposome worldwide and has an extensive expertise in this field.

Dr. Macherone serves as a Senior Scientist with Agilent Technologies and a Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also on the faculty of P2i (Preconception 2 infancy) with a focus of providing “women and couples tools to improve their odds of healthy, full-term pregnancies, thus reducing the incidence of serious, chronic disorders among their children”. Dr. Macherone is an expert in exposomics and is actively engaged in several publicly or privately funded exposomics investigations. 

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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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