Guimbaud Jean-Baptiste, Siskos Alexandros P, Sakhi Amrit Kaur, Heude Barbara, Sabidó Eduard, Borràs Eva, Keun Hector, Wright John, Julvez Jordi, Urquiza Jose, Gützkow Kristine Bjerve, Chatzi Leda, Casas Maribel, Bustamante Mariona, Nieuwenhuijsen Mark, Vrijheid Martine, López-Vicente Mónica, de Castro Pascual Montserrat, Stratakis Nikos, Robinson Oliver, Grazuleviciene Regina, Slama Remy, Alemany Silvia, Basagaña Xavier, Plantevit Marc, Cazabet Rémy, Maitre Léa
ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain.
Univ Lyon, UCBL, CNRS, INSA Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France.
Commun Med (Lond). 2024 May 23;4(1):98. doi: 10.1038/s43856-024-00513-y.
BACKGROUND: Early life environmental stressors play an important role in the development of multiple chronic disorders. Previous studies that used environmental risk scores (ERS) to assess the cumulative impact of environmental exposures on health are limited by the diversity of exposures included, especially for early life determinants. We used machine learning methods to build early life exposome risk scores for three health outcomes using environmental, molecular, and clinical data. METHODS: In this study, we analyzed data from 1622 mother-child pairs from the HELIX European birth cohorts, using over 300 environmental, 100 child peripheral, and 18 mother-child clinical markers to compute environmental-clinical risk scores (ECRS) for child behavioral difficulties, metabolic syndrome, and lung function. ECRS were computed using LASSO, Random Forest and XGBoost. XGBoost ECRS were selected to extract local feature contributions using Shapley values and derive feature importance and interactions. RESULTS: ECRS captured 13%, 50% and 4% of the variance in mental, cardiometabolic, and respiratory health, respectively. We observed no significant differences in predictive performances between the above-mentioned methods.The most important predictive features were maternal stress, noise, and lifestyle exposures for mental health; proteome (mainly IL1B) and metabolome features for cardiometabolic health; child BMI and urine metabolites for respiratory health. CONCLUSIONS: Besides their usefulness for epidemiological research, our risk scores show great potential to capture holistic individual level non-hereditary risk associations that can inform practitioners about actionable factors of high-risk children. As in the post-genetic era personalized prevention medicine will focus more and more on modifiable factors, we believe that such integrative approaches will be instrumental in shaping future healthcare paradigms.
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