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Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Harsh work environments can include very cold, hot, dusty, and noisy workplaces, as well as exposure in the workplace with chemicals and other fumes, cigarette smoke, and diesel exhaust. Although working in these harsh environments can have a negative effect on health, there are no effective biomark...

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Autores principales: Li, Ang, Liao, Wenjing, Xie, Junyang, Song, Lijuan, Zhang, Xiaowen
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35602164
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.852572
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author Li, Ang
Liao, Wenjing
Xie, Junyang
Song, Lijuan
Zhang, Xiaowen
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Liao, Wenjing
Xie, Junyang
Song, Lijuan
Zhang, Xiaowen
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description Harsh work environments can include very cold, hot, dusty, and noisy workplaces, as well as exposure in the workplace with chemicals and other fumes, cigarette smoke, and diesel exhaust. Although working in these harsh environments can have a negative effect on health, there are no effective biomarkers for monitoring health conditions until workers develop disease symptoms. Plasma protein concentrations, which reflect metabolism and immune status, have great potential as biomarkers for various health conditions. Using a Mendelian-randomization (MR) design, this study analyzed the effects of these harsh environments on plasma proteins to identify proteins that can be used as biomarkers of health status. Preliminary analysis using inverse variance weighted (IVW) method with a p-value cutoff of 0.05 showed that workplace environments could affect the concentrations of hundreds of plasma proteins. After filtering for sensitivity via MR-Egger, and Weighted Median MR approaches, 28 plasma proteins altered by workplace environments were identified. Further MR analysis showed that 20 of these plasma proteins, including UNC5D, IGFBP1, SCG3, ST3GAL6, and ST3GAL2 are affected by noisy workplace environments; TFF1, RBM39, ACYP2, STAT3, GRB2, CXCL1, EIF1AD, CSNK1G2, and CRKL that are affected by chemical fumes; ADCYAP1, NRSN1, TMEM132A, and CA10 that are affected by passive smoking; LILRB2, and TENM4 that are affected by diesel exhaust, are associated with the risk of at least one disease. These proteins have the potential to serve as biomarkers to monitor the occupational hazards risk of workers working in corresponding environments. These findings also provide clues to study the biological mechanisms of occupational hazards.
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spelling pubmed-91209212022-05-21 Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study Li, Ang Liao, Wenjing Xie, Junyang Song, Lijuan Zhang, Xiaowen Front Public Health Public Health Harsh work environments can include very cold, hot, dusty, and noisy workplaces, as well as exposure in the workplace with chemicals and other fumes, cigarette smoke, and diesel exhaust. Although working in these harsh environments can have a negative effect on health, there are no effective biomarkers for monitoring health conditions until workers develop disease symptoms. Plasma protein concentrations, which reflect metabolism and immune status, have great potential as biomarkers for various health conditions. Using a Mendelian-randomization (MR) design, this study analyzed the effects of these harsh environments on plasma proteins to identify proteins that can be used as biomarkers of health status. Preliminary analysis using inverse variance weighted (IVW) method with a p-value cutoff of 0.05 showed that workplace environments could affect the concentrations of hundreds of plasma proteins. After filtering for sensitivity via MR-Egger, and Weighted Median MR approaches, 28 plasma proteins altered by workplace environments were identified. Further MR analysis showed that 20 of these plasma proteins, including UNC5D, IGFBP1, SCG3, ST3GAL6, and ST3GAL2 are affected by noisy workplace environments; TFF1, RBM39, ACYP2, STAT3, GRB2, CXCL1, EIF1AD, CSNK1G2, and CRKL that are affected by chemical fumes; ADCYAP1, NRSN1, TMEM132A, and CA10 that are affected by passive smoking; LILRB2, and TENM4 that are affected by diesel exhaust, are associated with the risk of at least one disease. These proteins have the potential to serve as biomarkers to monitor the occupational hazards risk of workers working in corresponding environments. These findings also provide clues to study the biological mechanisms of occupational hazards. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9120921/ /pubmed/35602164 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.852572 Text en Copyright © 2022 Li, Liao, Xie, Song and Zhang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Li, Ang
Liao, Wenjing
Xie, Junyang
Song, Lijuan
Zhang, Xiaowen
Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study
title Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study
title_full Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study
title_fullStr Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study
title_full_unstemmed Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study
title_short Plasma Proteins as Occupational Hazard Risk Monitors for Populations Working in Harsh Environments: A Mendelian Randomization Study
title_sort plasma proteins as occupational hazard risk monitors for populations working in harsh environments: a mendelian randomization study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35602164
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.852572
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