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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Epidemiol. 2016 Aug 15;184(4):302–314. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwv325
Environment- or Exposome-wide assessment studies (EWAS) Studies that collect multiple kinds of exposure data from multiple sources which are then related to health effects
Exposome Concept describing the totality of exposure experienced by an individual during their life and the health impact of those exposures (1)
Exposome informatics Data management framework to deal with large multi-scale data sources in exposome studies (32)
Genome The genetic material of an organism, encoded in DNA and including both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA (68)
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) Studies that evaluate markers across the genome to elucidate associations with diseases
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Systems that manage geographic data (33)
Metabolome Sum of all low molecular weight metabolites present in a biological sample (69)
Omics technologies The collective characterization of components and measurement of molecules from a biological field of study, which involves a large scale data acquisition system that can be used to measure biological states or responses. Examples include the genome (DNA), transcriptome (RNA), and proteome (proteins)
Phenome All of the phenotypes of a cell, tissue, or organism
Proteome The full set of proteins encoded by a genome (68)
Reality mining Analysis of behavioral and self-reported data extracted from social networks and other portable devices’ applications (36)
Sensors Devices that measures an event or change. There are many diverse types of sensors available
Total exposure All exposures experienced by an individual
Transcriptome Complete set of RNA transcripts produced by the genome at any one time (67)
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