Fig. 3: Hierarchical analysis of exposure levels based on key epidemiological factors.
From: An exposome atlas of serum reveals the risk of chronic diseases in the Chinese population
a The location of province included in this study and their total concentration of exposures. b Regional distribution of different categories of exposures depicted by stacked bar plot. Exposures that significantly increase (c, d) and decrease (e) with age. Exposures that significantly increase (f–h) with education. For figures (c–h), the concentrations scaled by the z-score method were used and error bars represent standard error of mean (n = 5696 biologically independent samples). Exposures that significantly change with gender (i) and drinking history in male (j). The geometric means of the exposures were used for figures (a, b, i, j). Gray dash lines of figures (i, j) represent fold change less than 0.8 and more than 1.3.
