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CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 631-640出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-1109
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- NIH
- Breast Cancer Research Stamp Fund
- [R37CA070867]
Background: Metabolite levels within an individual vary over time. This within-individual variability, coupled with technical variability, reduces the power for epidemiologic studies to detect associations with disease. Here, the authors assess the variability of a large subset of metabolites and evaluate the implications for epidemiologic studies. Methods: Using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) platforms, 385 metabolites were measured in 60 women at baseline and year-one of the Shanghai Physical Activity Study, and observed patterns were confirmed in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening study. Results: Although the authors found high technical reliability (median intraclass correlation = 0.8), reliability over time within an individual was low. Taken together, variability in the assay and variability within the individual accounted for the majority of variability for 64% of metabolites. Given this, a metabolite would need, on average, a relative risk of 3 (comparing upper and lower quartiles of usual levels) or 2 (comparing quartiles of observed levels) to be detected in 38%, 74%, and 97% of studies including 500, 1,000, and 5,000 individuals. Age, gender, and fasting status factors, which are often of less interest in epidemiologic studies, were associated with 30%, 67%, and 34% of metabolites, respectively, but the associations were weak and explained only a small proportion of the total metabolite variability. Conclusion: Metabolomics will require large, but feasible, sample sizes to detect the moderate effect sizes typical for epidemiologic studies. Impact: We offer guidelines for determining the sample sizes needed to conduct metabolomic studies in epidemiology. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 22(4); 631-40. (C) 2013 AACR.
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