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Shona Mckirdy

Glasgow Royal InfirmaryORCID 0000-0002-8940-9384Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:metabolomics· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Ada H. Y. Yuen· 1 shared Andrew NelsoniD· 1 shared Anna Mascellani Bergo· 1 shared Christopher QuinceiD· 1 shared Daniel Gómez‐PéreziD· 1 shared Darren L. Smith· 1 shared Edward J. MathiasiD· 1 shared Elena ChekmenevaiD· 1 shared

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Widespread detection of Polyethylene glycol reveals chronic human exposure through pharmaceutical drugs

Harsha Gouda, Patricia Kelly, Luke Whiley, Daniel Gómez‐Pérez, Anna Mascellani Bergo, Wilhan Donizete Gonçalves Nunes, Elena Chekmeneva, Ada H. Y. Yuen, Mark David, Shona Mckirdy, Andrew Nelson, Darren L. Smith, Haoqi Nina Zhao, Jeong In Seo, Edward J. Mathias, , Pieter C. Dorrestein

Polyethylene glycol in human biofluids can mark drug exposure rather than contamination; it is oxidized to acid metabolites and appears in 2.3% of public metabolomics files.

bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry✦ In-depth digest