The Multi-Omic Milk (MuMi) Study: Leveraging the IMiC Platform and the CHILD Cohort to study human milk as a biological system and understand its composition, determinants and impacts on child health

多组学牛奶 (MuMi) 研究：利用 IMiC 平台和儿童队列研究母乳作为一个生物系统，并了解其成分、决定因素以及对儿童健康的影响

• 批准号: 10676907
• 负责人: Meghan Brianne Azad
• 金额: $ 49.21万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-12 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10676907
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Anthropometry; Artificial Intelligence; Bacteria; Big Data; Breast Feeding; Caring; Categories; Characteristics; Child; Child Development; Child Health; Childhood; Chronic Disease; Cohort Studies; Collaborations; Data; Data Scientist; Data Set; Development; Ensure; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Risk Factor; Fatty Acids; Future Generations; Genetic; Grant; Growth; Growth and Development function; Health; Human; Human Milk; Hypersensitivity; Individual; Infant; Infant Development; Infant Health; Infection; Infrastructure; International; Lactation; Life; Life Style; Macronutrients Nutrition; Metadata; Micronutrients; Milk; Milk Substitutes; Mothers; Nutrient; Nutritional Study; Oligosaccharides; Parents; Phenotype; Positioning Attribute; Pregnancy; Proteins; Research; Research Personnel; Resolution; Resources; Sampling; Scientist; System; Systems Biology; Systems Development; Variant; Wheezing; Work; atopy; biobank; biological systems; cohort; complex biological systems; design; disorder prevention; early childhood; feeding; improved; infancy; infant nutrition; innovation; lifestyle factors; machine learning method; method development; microbiome; microbiota; multiple omics; novel; nutrition; programs; unsupervised learning

PROJECT SUMMARY Significance: Human milk (HM) has evolved over millions of years to nourish and protect human infants - yet we know surprisingly little about its composition, variation, and function. Traditionally, HM research has focused on individual HM components, yet HM is a complex biological system comprising thousands of components that interact and function in combination. Moreover, while HM composition is known to be affected by maternal, infant, and environmental factors, these are poorly understood and rarely examined simultaneously. To address these gaps, our team is championing a multi-omics systems biology approach to study HM as a “system within a system”, reflecting that milk itself is a system embedded within the “mother-milk-infant” triad. Approach: This grant will leverage and unite two established HM research platforms to investigate HM and its determinants and health impacts among 1600 mother-infant dyads using a novel multi-omic approach. The International Milk Composition (IMiC) Consortium is a network of HM researchers and data scientists with an established infrastructure for multi-omic HM research. CHILD is an ongoing national pregnancy cohort of 3600 children born in 2009-12. Our team has already analyzed 1600 CHILD HM samples for 19 oligosaccharides, 28 fatty acids, and hundreds of bacteria. We will now enhance the rich CHILD dataset with new multi-omic HM analyses (20 nutrients, 15 non-nutritive bioactive proteins and thousands of metabolites) and apply unsupervised machine learning methods to identify discrete ‘lactotypes’ (Aim 1). Next, we will leverage the rich CHILD data to identify maternal, infant and environmental factors associated with lactotype membership and/or individual HM components (Aim 2). Finally, we will use machine learning methods to understand how HM composition influences microbiome development, growth, wheezing and allergies during infancy and childhood (Aim 3). Innovation: Integrating the CHILD and IMiC platforms will facilitate unprecedented research on HM as a system-within-a-system and generate the world’s largest and most deeply-phenotyped mother-milk-infant dataset (n=1600 triads with multi-omic milk profiles and rich longitudinal maternal and infant metadata). This project will unite expert HM scientists, renowned pediatric researchers and data scientists at the forefront of multi-omic methods development, placing the interdisciplinary MuMi team in an unrivaled position to make novel discoveries in this space and revolutionize the way HM is studied and understood.

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