TY - M-10161
AU - Namuun, O
AU - Gankhuyag, Dulguun
TI - Building HairX: A Comprehensive Human Hair Database to Revolutionize Exposome Research
T2 - Scientific Research Journal of Environment, Earth and Physical Science

PY - 2024
VL - 2
IS - 2
SN - 2584-0614

AB - By detecting accumulated chemicals, contaminants, and lifestyle variables, human hair provides a one-of-a-kind biological sample for studying the exposome, the sum of all environmental exposures throughout a lifetime. Because it may represent a wide range of environmental, occupational, and lifestyle exposures, hair provides a practical, non-invasive matrix for assessing exposure over time. This study presents HairX, a state-of-the-art database developed to support exposome studies conducted on human hair. In addition to demographic and lifestyle variables, HairX incorporates multi-omics data, which includes chemical profiling, genetic information, and metabolomics. This study focuses on the database's development, its use in expanding exposome research, and its future ability to fill knowledge gaps on environmental exposures and their effects on human health.

KW - Human hair
KW -  Exposome
KW -  Environmental exposures
KW -  HairX
KW -  Chemical profiling
KW -  Multi-omics
KW -  Toxicology
KW -  Public health
KW -  Biomonitoring
DO -