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The Puerto Rico PROTECT cohort is a well-characterized prospective birth cohort that was designed to investigate environmental and social contributors to preterm birth in Puerto Rico, where preterm birth rates have been elevated in recent decades. To elucidate possible relationships between metabolites and preterm birth in this cohort, we conducted a nested case-control study to conduct untargeted metabolomic characterization of maternal plasma of 31 women who experienced preterm birth and 69 controls who underwent full-term labor at 24\u201328 gestational weeks.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 333 metabolites were identified and annotated with liquid chromatography\/mass spectrometry. Subsequent weighted gene correlation network analysis shows that the fatty acid and carene-enriched module has a significant positive association (P = 8e\u221204, FDR = 0.006) with preterm birth. After controlling for potential clinical confounders, a total of 38 metabolites demonstrated significant changes uniquely associated with preterm birth, where 17 of them were preterm biomarkers. Among 7 machine-learning classifiers, the application of random forest achieved a highly accurate and specific prediction (AUC = 0.92) for preterm birth in testing data, demonstrating their strong potential as biomarkers for preterm births. The 17 preterm biomarkers are involved in cell signaling, lipid metabolism, and lipid peroxidation functions. Additional modeling using only the 19 spontaneous preterm births (sPTB) and controls identifies 16 sPTB markers, with an AUC of 0.89 in testing data. Half of the sPTB overlap with those markers for preterm births. Further causality analysis infers that suberic acid upregulates several fatty acids to promote preterm birth.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Altogether, this study demonstrates the involvement of lipids, particularly fatty acids, in the pathogenesis of preterm birth.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/gigascience\/giac004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,15]],"date-time":"2022-02-15T07:22:43Z","timestamp":1644909763000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Maternal plasma lipids are involved in the pathogenesis of preterm birth"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Yile","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 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