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The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS): Metabolomics in 47 Prospective Cohort Studies

  • Bing Yu
  • , Krista A. Zanetti
  • , Marinella Temprosa
  • , Demetrius Albanes
  • , Nathan Appel
  • , Clara Barrios Barrera
  • , Yoav Ben-Shlomo
  • , Eric Boerwinkle
  • , Juan P. Casas
  • , Clary Clish
  • , Caroline Dale
  • , Abbas Dehghan
  • , Andriy Derkach
  • , A. Heather Eliassen
  • , Paul Elliott
  • , Eoin Fahy
  • , Christian Gieger
  • , Marc J. Gunter
  • , Sei Harada
  • , Tamara Harris
  • Deron R. Herr, David Herrington, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Elise Hoover, Ann W. Hsing, Mattias Johansson, Rachel S. Kelly, Chin Meng Khoo, Mika Kivimäki, Bruce S. Kristal, Claudia Langenberg, Jessica Lasky-Su, Deborah A. Lawlor, Luca A. Lotta, Massimo Mangino, Loïc Le Marchand, Ewy Mathé, Charles E. Matthews, Cristina Menni, Lorelei A. Mucci, Rachel Murphy, Matej Oresic, Eric Orwoll, Jennifer Ose, Alexandre C. Pereira, Mary C. Playdon, Lucilla Poston, Jackie Price, Qibin Qi, Kathryn Rexrode, Adam Risch, Joshua Sampson, Wei Jie Seow, Howard D. Sesso, Svati H. Shah, Xiao Ou Shu, Gordon C.S. Smith, Ulla Sovio, Victoria L. Stevens, Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, Toru Takebayashi, Therese Tillin, Ruth Travis, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Mukesh Verma, Ying Wang, Nick J. Wareham, Andrew Wong, Naji Younes, Hua Zhao, Wei Zheng, Steven C. Moore
  • University of Texas School of Public Health
  • National Cancer Institute, NIH
  • George Washington University
  • Information Management Services Inc.
  • Servicio de Medicina Interna y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital del Mar-IMIM and RETICEF
  • University of Bristol
  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • UCL University College London
  • Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • PHE Public Health England
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Imperial College London
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH
  • German Center for Diabetes Research
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Keio University
  • Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science Laboratory
  • Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • San Diego State University
  • Wake Forest University
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Stanford University School of Medicine
  • National University Health System
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Ohio State University
  • King's College London
  • Vancouver General Hospital, The Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine
  • Åbo Akademi University
  • Örebro University
  • Oregon Health & Science University
  • University of Utah
  • Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
  • Department of Women and Children's Health
  • Medical Schoo
  • Yeshiva University
  • Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
  • Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore 117597, Singapore; Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore 168751, Singapore; Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore.
  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • American Cancer Society
  • University of Oxford
  • Boston University School of Medicine
  • Boston University
  • Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study
  • University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

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Abstract

The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS) was established in 2014 to facilitate large-scale collaborative research on the human metabolome and its relationship with disease etiology, diagnosis, and prognosis. COMETS comprises 47 cohorts from Asia, Europe, North America, and South America that together include more than 136,000 participants with blood metabolomics data on samples collected from 1985 to 2017. Metabolomics data were provided by 17 different platforms, with the most frequently used labs being Metabolon, Inc. (14 cohorts), the Broad Institute (15 cohorts), and Nightingale Health (11 cohorts). Participants have been followed for a median of 23 years for health outcomes including death, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and others; many of the studies are ongoing. Available exposure-related data include common clinical measurements and behavioral factors, as well as genome-wide genotype data. Two feasibility studies were conducted to evaluate the comparability of metabolomics platforms used by COMETS cohorts. The first study showed that the overlap between any 2 different laboratories ranged from 6 to 121 metabolites at 5 leading laboratories. The second study showed that the median Spearman correlation comparing 111 overlapping metabolites captured by Metabolon and the Broad Institute was 0.79 (interquartile range, 0.56-0.89).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)991-1012
Number of pages22
JournalAmerican Journal of Epidemiology
Volume188
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2019

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  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Keywords

  • cancer
  • cohort
  • diabetes
  • genetics
  • heart disease
  • metabolomics
  • prospective

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