The goal of this project is to determine whether prenatal and/or early life exposure to air pollutants affects the infant gut microbiota and fecal metabolome, thereby altering infant health in the first two years of life.

PI: Alderete

Publications

Evidence from Two Distinct Cohorts─The Atlanta African American Maternal-Child Cohort and the Southern California Mother's Milk Study.

Longitudinal profiles of the fecal metabolome during the first 2 years of life.

Human milk EV-miRNAs: a novel biomarker for air pollution exposure during pregnancy.

Prenatal and Early Life Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants Is Associated with the Fecal Metabolome in the First Two Years of Life.

Air pollution exposure may impact the composition of human milk oligosaccharides.