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Biospecimens and the ABCD study: Rationale, methods of collection, measurement and early data

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Uban, Kristina A., Horton, Megan K., Jacobus, Joanna, Heyser, Charles, Thompson, Wesley K., Tapert, Susan F., Madden, Pamela A.F., Sowell, Elizabeth R.·2018·Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Biospecimen collection in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study - of hair samples, shed deciduous (baby) teeth, and body fluids - will serve dual functions of screening for study eligibility, and providing measures of biological processes thought to predict or correlate with key study outcomes on brain and cognitive development. Biosamples are being collected annually to screen for recency of drug use prior to the neuroimaging or cognitive testing visit, and to store for the following future studies: (1) on the effects of exposure to illicit and recreational drugs (including alcohol and nicotine); (2) of pubertal hormones on brain and cognitive developmental trajectories; (3) on the contribution of genomics and epigenomics to child and adolescent development and behavioral outcomes; and (4) with pre- and post-natal exposure to environmental neurotoxicants and drugs of abuse measured from novel tooth analyses. The present manuscript describes the rationales for inclusion and selection of the specific biospecimens, methodological considerations for each measure, future plans for assessment of biospecimens during follow-up visits, and preliminary ABCD data to illustrate methodological considerations.

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Authors
Uban, K. A., Horton, M. K., Jacobus, J., Heyser, C., Thompson, W. K., Tapert, S. F., Madden, P. A. F., & Sowell, E. R.
Affiliations
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Corresponding author
  • Madden, Pamela A.F.
  • Sowell, Elizabeth R.
Venue
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-08
Volume
32
Pages
97-106
ISSN
1878-9293 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2790273005
Cited by
175
References
102
Citations by year
2026: 27 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3
FWCI
1.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2020-10-01)
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  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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  • Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (KL2TR001444)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K01AA026889)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (U01DA041120, U01DA041048, U24DA041147, U24DA041123, U01DA041089)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Keywords
Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, biospecimen collection, hair samples, primary teeth, biological fluids, substance use screening, pubertal hormones, epigenomics, genomics, environmental neurotoxicants, prenatal drug exposure, adolescent brain development, cognitive development
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Brain, Child, Cognition, Female, Humans, Specimen Handling, Adolescent Development, Neuroimaging

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