Safarlou Caspar W, Jongsma Karin R, Vermeulen Roel, Bredenoord Annelien L
Department of Global Public Health and Bioethics, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Population Health Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Exposome. 2023 Apr 12;3(1):osad004. doi: 10.1093/exposome/osad004.
In recent years, exposome research has been put forward as the next frontier for the study of human health and disease. Exposome research entails the analysis of the totality of environmental exposures and their corresponding biological responses within the human body. Increasingly, this is operationalized by big-data approaches to map the effects of internal as well as external exposures using smart sensors and multiomics technologies. However, the ethical implications of exposome research are still only rarely discussed in the literature. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review of the academic literature regarding both the exposome and underlying research fields and approaches, to map the ethical aspects that are relevant to exposome research. We identify five ethical themes that are prominent in ethics discussions: the goals of exposome research, its standards, its tools, how it relates to study participants, and the consequences of its products. Furthermore, we provide a number of general principles for how future ethics research can best make use of our comprehensive overview of the ethical aspects of exposome research. Lastly, we highlight three aspects of exposome research that are most in need of ethical reflection: the actionability of its findings, the epidemiological or clinical norms applicable to exposome research, and the meaning and action-implications of bias.
近年来,暴露组研究已被提出作为人类健康与疾病研究的下一个前沿领域。暴露组研究需要分析人体内部环境暴露的总体情况及其相应的生物学反应。如今,这越来越多地通过大数据方法来实现,即使用智能传感器和多组学技术绘制内部及外部暴露的影响。然而,暴露组研究的伦理影响在文献中仍然很少被讨论。因此,我们对关于暴露组以及相关研究领域和方法的学术文献进行了系统综述,以梳理与暴露组研究相关的伦理方面。我们确定了在伦理讨论中突出的五个伦理主题:暴露组研究的目标、其标准、其工具、它与研究参与者的关系以及其成果的影响。此外,我们为未来的伦理研究如何最好地利用我们对暴露组研究伦理方面的全面概述提供了一些一般原则。最后,我们强调暴露组研究最需要进行伦理反思的三个方面:其研究结果的可操作性、适用于暴露组研究的流行病学或临床规范,以及偏差的含义和行动影响。
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