From cohorts to molecules: Adverse impacts of endocrine disrupting mixturesEuropean Institute of Oncology, ITA.;University of Milan, ITA;Human Technopole, ITA.
SWETOX, Swedish Toxicology Sciences Research Center.
University of Edinburgh, GBR.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA.;University of Milan, ITA.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA.;University of Milan, ITA.
University of Edinburgh, GBR.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA ;University of Milan, ITA.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA ;University of Milan, ITA.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA;Evotec SE, DEU.
SWETOX, Swedish Toxicology Sciences ;Stockholm University;Örebro University.
SWETOX, Swedish Toxicology Sciences;Karolinska Institutet ;Karolinska University Hospital.
Uppsala University.
University of Leipzig, DEU.
University of Athens,GRC.
Finnish Institute of Health & Welfare, FIN.
Örebro University, Sweden.
Finnish Institute of Health & Welfare, FIN.
Stockholm University, Sweden.
Karolinska Institutet.; Stockholm University Hospital, Sweden.
Sorbonne University, FRA.
Sorbonne University, FRA.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.
Swetox Swedish toxicology sciences research center; Uppsala University.
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
European Institute of Oncology, ITA.;University of Milan, ITA ;Human Technopole, ITA.
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2022 (English)In: Science, ISSN 0036-8075, E-ISSN 1095-9203, Vol. 375, no 6582, p. 735-+Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Convergent evidence associates exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) with major human diseases, even at regulation-compliant concentrations. This might be because humans are exposed to EDC mixtures, whereas chemical regulation is based on a risk assessment of individual compounds. Here, we developed a mixture-centered risk assessment strategy that integrates epidemiological and experimental evidence. We identified that exposure to an EDC mixture in early pregnancy is associated with language delay in offspring. At human-relevant concentrations, this mixture disrupted hormone-regulated and disease-relevant regulatory networks in human brain organoids and in the model organisms Xenopus leavis and Danio rerio, as well as behavioral responses. Reinterrogating epidemiological data, we found that up to 54% of the children had prenatal exposures above experimentally derived levels of concern, reaching, for the upper decile compared with the lowest decile of exposure, a 3.3 times higher risk of language delay.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2022. Vol. 375, no 6582, p. 735-+
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-89412DOI: 10.1126/science.abe8244ISI: 000758142600037PubMedID: 35175820Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85124775819OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-89412DiVA, id: diva2:1650671
2022-04-082022-04-082022-11-10Bibliographically approved