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A wellness study of 108 individuals using personal, dense, dynamic data clouds

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Price, Nathan D, Magis, Andrew T, Earls, John C, Glusman, Gustavo, Levy, Roie, Lausted, Christopher, McDonald, Daniel T, Kusebauch, Ulrike +8 more·2017·Nature Biotechnology

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Personal data for 108 individuals were collected during a 9-month period, including whole genome sequences; clinical tests, metabolomes, proteomes, and microbiomes at three time points; and daily activity tracking. Using all of these data, we generated a correlation network that revealed communities of related analytes associated with physiology and disease. Connectivity within analyte communities enabled the identification of known and candidate biomarkers (e.g., gamma-glutamyltyrosine was densely interconnected with clinical analytes for cardiometabolic disease). We calculated polygenic scores from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for 127 traits and diseases, and used these to discover molecular correlates of polygenic risk (e.g., genetic risk for inflammatory bowel disease was negatively correlated with plasma cystine). Finally, behavioral coaching informed by personal data helped participants to improve clinical biomarkers. Our results show that measurement of personal data clouds over time can improve our understanding of health and disease, including early transitions to disease states.

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Price, N. D., Magis, A. T., Earls, J. C., Glusman, G., Levy, R., Lausted, C., McDonald, D. T., Kusebauch, U., Moss, C. L., Zhou, Y., Qin, S., Moritz, R. L., Brogaard, K., Omenn, G. S., Lovejoy, J. C., & Hood, L.
Affiliations
  • Institute for Systems Biology (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
  • Price, Nathan D
  • Hood, Leroy
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2017-07-17
Volume
35
Issue
8
Pages
747-756
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2734770034
Cited by
427
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 79 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 57 · 2018: 60 · 2017: 10
FWCI
27.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (RC2HG005805)
  • National Cancer Institute (U24CA210967)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P50GM076547)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (P30ES017885)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Keywords
biomarker discovery, polygenic risk score, polygenic risk, cardiometabolic disease, inflammatory bowel disease, microbiome, metabolome, proteome, whole genome sequencing, activity monitoring, behavioral coaching, disease transition, health monitoring
MeSH terms
Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Monitoring, Physiologic, Neoplasms, Nutritional Status, Models, Statistical, Biomarkers, Exercise, Databases, Factual, Computational Biology, Proteome, Genome-Wide Association Study, Metabolome, Microbiota

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