对样本质量异质性和批次间可变性的脚指甲金属度的校准:COMET方法
Roberto Pastor-Barriuso1,2, Enrique Gutiérrez-González3, Elena Varea-Jiménez1,4
1National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.
Environmental health perspectives
|March 7, 2025
概括
现在可以使用一种新的建模方法准确校准指甲金属度,该方法可以纠正样品质量和实验室批量变化. 这种方法提高了脚指甲生物标志物的可靠性,用于评估金属暴露的流行病学研究.
科学领域:
- 环境健康科学 环境健康科学
- 生物标志物开发 生物标志物开发
- 流行病学方法 流行病学方法
背景情况:
- 在流行病学研究中,指甲作为长期金属暴露的有价值生物标志物.
- 由于样品质量和实验室批处理的变化,脚指甲金属分析的准确性往往受到损害.
研究的目的:
- 引入一种新的统计建模方法,用于校准指甲金属度.
- 解决来自异质样本质量和实验室批次变异性的系统和随机错误.
主要方法:
- 开发了一种异种线混合模型,将样品质量和实验室批量与金属度联系起来.
- 该模型考虑了质量依赖偏差,批量特定随机偏差和质量相关误差差异异质.
- 通过去除外在变异来导出校准度,并为实现提供了R脚本COMET.
主要成果:
- 样品质量和批量变异性解释了26-60%的金属对金属的指甲金属度测量的总变异.
- 校准度显示,与未校准数据相比,四分之一的金属与癌症相关的概率比率偏差.
- 该COMET R脚本方便模型的安装,差异组件的提取,和度校准.
结论:
- 拟议的建模方法有效地纠正了指甲金属度的样品质量和批量变化.
- 这种方法提高了指甲生物标志物在流行病学研究中的金属暴露评估的准确性.
- 该模型可适应校准其他具有类似测量误差来源的生物标本.
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