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Recent Publications from the Richard Miller Lab

1. Moog NK
2. Al-Ali K
3. Rasmussen JM
4. Miller RK
5. Barrett ES
6. Graham AM
7. Fair DA
8. Tivarus ME
9. Entringer S
10. Wadhwa PD
11. Simhan HN
12. O'Connor TG
13. Styner M
14. Buss C
Maternal depression with and without a history of childhood maltreatment and newborn white matter microstructure.; Psychological medicine; Vol 56, pp. e51. 2026 Feb 24.
1. Fisher SA
2. Xun X
3. Gemmill A
4. Yee LM
5. Mithal L
6. Hamvas A
7. Regnier RA
8. Aschner JL
9. Maitre NL
10. O'Connor TG
11. Cowell W
12. Kahn LG
13. Newman RB
14. Miller RK
15. Salafia C
16. Elliott AJ
17. Singh AM
18. Baumann-Blackmore N
19. Goldstein J
Placental histopathology and early childhood neurodevelopment in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort.; American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 2026 Feb 19.
1. Chiu A
2. Ivey D
3. Sanko A
4. Tisdale B
5. Katzman PJ
6. O'Connor TG
7. Thomas K
8. Love T
9. Perez-D'Gregorio R
10. Salafia CM
11. Miller RK
12. Hopke PK
A comprehensive approach for detecting and locating black carbon in human placentae.; Air quality, atmosphere, & health; Vol 19(1), pp. 3. 2026 Jan 16.
1. Barrett ES
2. Klus J
3. Pande A
4. Love T
5. Thurston SW
6. Brunner J
7. Kannan K
8. Miller RK
9. Groth S
10. O'Connor TG
Organophosphate ester exposure in pregnancy, gestational weight gain, and postpartum body composition in a U.S.-based longitudinal pregnancy cohort.; Environmental health : a global access science source. 2025 Dec 19.
1. Cowell W
2. Hsu HL
3. Just AC
4. Kloog I
5. Coull BA
6. Wilson A
7. Hipwell AE
8. Karagas MR
9. Gilliland FD
10. Padula AM
11. Carroll KN
12. Kerver JM
13. Ghassabian A
14. Camargo CA
15. Dabelea D
16. Koinis-Mitchell D
17. D'Sa V
18. Abul MH
19. Braun JM
20. Croen LA
21. Hartert T
22. Shiroshita A
23. Peacock JL
24. Neiderhiser JM
25. Leve LD
26. Ganiban JM
27. Litonjua AA
28. McEvoy CT
29. Haag MB
30. Schmidt RJ
31. Goodrich AJ
32. Lyall K
33. Volk HE
34. O'Connor TG
35. Rich DQ
36. Porucznik CA
37. Wright RJ
Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in the ECHO Cohort.; JAMA network open; Vol 8(12), pp. e2551459. 2025 Dec 01.
1. Kumar S
2. Salafia CM
3. Shah R
4. Girardi T
5. Miller RK
6. Thurston SW
7. Hopke PK
8. Skrill D
9. Brunner J
10. Harrington D
11. Ge Y
12. Lin Y
13. Yount C
14. Barrett E
15. O'Connor TG
16. Zhang JJ
17. Rich DQ
Prenatal air pollution exposure and placental vasculature development among participants of the UPSIDE cohort study.; Environmental research. 2025 Sep 20.
1. Perez-D'Gregorio R
2. Rosen-Carole CB
3. Chiu A
4. Burtner M
5. Jee SH
6. Miller RK
Seven Years of Breastfeeding Consultations at the National Lactation Study Center-June 2018 to December 2024.; Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. 2025 Sep 18.
1. Meléndez DC
2. Laniewski N
3. Jusko TA
4. Qiu X
5. Lawrence BP
6. Rivera-Núñez Z
7. Brunner J
8. Best M
9. Macomber A
10. Leger A
11. Kannan K
12. Miller RK
13. Barrett ES
14. O'Connor TG
15. Scheible K
In utero per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and changes in infant T helper cell development among UPSIDE-ECHO cohort participants.; Environmental health perspectives. 2025 Jun 09.
1. Rivera-Núñez Z
2. Kinkade C
3. Brinker A
4. Zhang R
5. Buckley B
6. Brunner J
7. Ohman-Strickland P
8. Qiu X
9. Qasem RJ
10. Fallon JK
11. Smith PC
12. Miller RK
13. Salafia CS
14. O'Connor TG
15. Aleksunes LM
16. Barrett ES
Mycoestrogen Exposure During Pregnancy: Impact of the ABCG2 Q141K Variant on Birth and Placental Outcomes.; Environmental health perspectives. 2025 Mar 24.
1. Meng Y
2. Thornburg LL
3. Dreisbach C
4. Orzolek C
5. Kautz A
6. Murphy HR
7. Rivera-Núñez Z
8. Wang C
9. Miller RK
10. O'Connor TG
11. Barrett ES
The role of prenatal maternal sex steroid hormones in weight and adiposity at birth and growth trajectories during infancy.; International journal of obesity (2005). 2025 Mar 17.
1. Bloom MS
2. Upadhyaya S
3. Nzegwu AW
4. Kuiper JR
5. Buckley JP
6. Aschner J
7. Barr D
8. Barrett ES
9. Bennett DH
10. Dabelea D
11. Dunlop AL
12. Fuller A
13. Karagas M
14. Liang D
15. Meeker J
16. Miller R
17. O'Connor TG
18. Romano ME
19. Sathyanarayana S
20. Starling AP
21. Stroustrup A
22. Watkins DJ
Racial and ethnic differences in prenatal exposure to environmental phenols and parabens in the ECHO Cohort.; Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology. 2025 Feb 15.
1. Hansel MC
2. Lubina KA
3. Roepke TA
4. Ohman-Strickland P
5. Kannan K
6. Wang C
7. Miller RK
8. O'Connor TG
9. Rivera-Núñez Z
10. Barrett ES
Maternal organophosphate esters and sex steroid hormones in mid-pregnancy.; Environmental research. 2025 Feb 06.
1. Kahwaji M
2. Duttweiler L
3. Thurston SW
4. Harrington D
5. Miller RK
6. Murphy SK
7. Wang C
8. Brunner J
9. Ge Y
10. Lin Y
11. Hopke PK
12. O'Connor TG
13. Zhang JJ
14. Rich DQ
15. Barrett ES
Gestational exposure to PM2.5, NO2, and sex steroid hormones: Identifying critical windows of exposure in the Rochester UPSIDE Cohort.; Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.); Vol 9(1), pp. e361. 2025 Jan 15.
1. Barrett ES
2. Skrill D
3. Zhou E
4. Thurston SW
5. Girardi T
6. Brunner J
7. Liang HW
8. Miller RK
9. Salafia CM
10. O'Connor TG
11. Adibi JJ
Prenatal exposure to phthalates and phthalate replacements in relation to chorionic plate surface vasculature at delivery.; The Science of the total environment; Vol 958, pp. 178116. 2024 Dec 17.
1. Wang X
2. Ge Y
3. Lin Y
4. Craig EA
5. Chen R
6. Miller RK
7. Barrett ES
8. Thurston SW
9. O'Connor TG
10. Rich DQ
11. Zhang JJ
Benzo[a]pyrene and phenanthrene hemoglobin adducts as biomarkers of longer-term air pollution exposure.; Environmental science. Processes & impacts. 2024 Nov 29.
1. Meléndez DC
2. Laniewski N
3. Jusko TA
4. Qiu X
5. Paige Lawrence B
6. Rivera-Núñez Z
7. Brunner J
8. Best M
9. Macomber A
10. Leger A
11. Kannan K
12. Miller RK
13. Barrett ES
14. O'Connor TG
15. Scheible K
In utero exposure to per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) associates with altered human infant T helper cell development.; medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2024 Nov 18.
1. Womack SR
2. Murphy HR
3. Arnold MS
4. Duberstein ZT
5. Best M
6. Qiu X
7. Miller RK
8. Barrett ES
9. O'Connor TG
Timing sensitivity of prenatal cortisol exposure and neurocognitive development.; Development and psychopathology. 2024 Nov 06.
1. Scheible K
2. Beblavy R
3. Sohn MB
4. Qui X
5. Gill AL
6. Narvaez-Miranda J
7. Brunner J
8. Miller RK
9. Barrett ES
10. O'Connor TG
11. Gill SR
Affective symptoms in pregnancy are associated with the vaginal microbiome.; Journal of affective disorders. 2024 Sep 16.
1. Lin Y
2. Chen R
3. Ge Y
4. Brunner J
5. Hopke PK
6. Miller RK
7. Thornburg LL
8. Stevens T
9. Barrett ES
10. Harrington DK
11. Thurston SW
12. Murphy SK
13. O'Connor TG
14. Rich DQ
15. Zhang JJ
Exposure to Low-Level Air Pollution and Hyperglycemia Markers during Pregnancy: A Repeated Measure Analysis.; Environmental science & technology. 2024 Aug 27.
1. Craig EA
2. Lin Y
3. Ge Y
4. Wang X
5. Murphy SK
6. Harrington DK
7. Miller RK
8. Thurston SW
9. Hopke PK
10. Barrett ES
11. O'Connor TG
12. Rich DQ
13. Zhang J
Associations of Gestational Exposure to Air Pollution and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Placental Inflammation.; Environment & health (Washington, D.C.); Vol 2(9), pp. 672-680. 2024 Jul 30.
1. Yount CS
2. Scheible K
3. Thurston SW
4. Qiu X
5. Ge Y
6. Hopke PK
7. Lin Y
8. Miller RK
9. Murphy SK
10. Brunner J
11. Barrett E
12. O'Connor TG
13. Zhang J
14. Rich DQ
Short term air pollution exposure during pregnancy and associations with maternal immune markers.; Environmental research. 2024 Jul 19.
1. Kautz A
2. Meng Y
3. Yeh KL
4. Peck R
5. Brunner J
6. Best M
7. Fernandez ID
8. Miller RK
9. Barrett ES
10. Groth SW
11. O'Connor TG
Dietary Intake of Nutrients Involved in Serotonin and Melatonin Synthesis and Prenatal Maternal Sleep Quality and Affective Symptoms.; Journal of nutrition and metabolism; Vol 2024, pp. 6611169. 2024 Jul 08.
1. Salafia CM
2. Rukat C
3. Dygulska B
4. Miller RK
5. Misra DP
Placental chronic inflammatory histopathology and fetal growth in a cohort with universal placental examination.; Placenta; Vol 154, pp. 193-200. 2024 Jul 02.
1. Wang X
2. Lin Y
3. Ge Y
4. Craig E
5. Liu X
6. Miller RK
7. Thurston SW
8. Brunner J
9. Barrett ES
10. O'Connor TG
11. Rich DQ
12. Zhang JJ
Systemic Oxidative Stress Levels During the Course of Pregnancy: Associations with Exposure to Air Pollutants.; Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 2024 Jun 26.
1. Kinkade CW
2. Aleksunes LM
3. Brinker A
4. Buckley B
5. Brunner J
6. Wang C
7. Miller RK
8. O'Connor TG
9. Rivera-Núñez Z
10. Barrett ES
Associations between mycoestrogen exposure and sex steroid hormone concentrations in maternal serum and cord blood in the UPSIDE pregnancy cohort.; International journal of hygiene and environmental health; Vol 260, pp. 114405. 2024 Jun 13.
1. Shah RG
2. Salafia CM
3. Girardi T
4. Rukat C
5. Brunner J
6. Barrett ES
7. O'Connor TG
8. Misra DP
9. Miller RK
Maternal affective symptoms and sleep quality have sex-specific associations with placental topography.; Journal of affective disorders. 2024 May 26.
1. Scheible K
2. Beblavy R
3. Sohn MB
4. Qui X
5. Gill AL
6. Narvaez-Miranda J
7. Brunner J
8. Miller RK
9. Barrett ES
10. O'Connor TG
11. Gill SR
Affective Symptoms in Pregnancy are Associated with the Vaginal Microbiome.; bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2024 Apr 12.
1. Serrano J
2. Womack S
3. Yount C
4. Chowdhury SF
5. Arnold M
6. Brunner J
7. Duberstein Z
8. Barrett ES
9. Scheible K
10. Miller RK
11. O'Connor TG
Prenatal maternal immune activation predicts observed fearfulness in infancy.; Developmental psychology. 2024 Mar 28.
1. Chowdhury SF
2. Prout N
3. Rivera-Núñez Z
4. Barrett E
5. Brunner J
6. Duberstein Z
7. Kannan K
8. Salafia CM
9. Shah R
10. Miller RK
11. O'Connor TG
PFAS alters placental arterial vasculature in term human placentae: A prospective pregnancy cohort study.; Placenta; Vol 149, pp. 54-63. 2024 Mar 09.
1. Kozlosky D
2. Doherty C
3. Buckley B
4. Goedken MJ
5. Miller RK
6. Huh DD
7. Barrett ES
8. Aleksunes LM
Fetoplacental Disposition and Toxicity of Cadmium in Mice Lacking the Bcrp Transporter.; Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology; Vol 197(2), pp. 132-46. 2023 Nov 06.
1. Meng Y
2. Thornburg LL
3. Hoeger KM
4. Núñez ZR
5. Kautz A
6. Evans AT
7. Wang C
8. Miller RK
9. Groth SW
10. O'Connor TG
11. Barrett ES
Association between sex steroid hormones and subsequent hyperglycemia during pregnancy.; Frontiers in endocrinology; Vol 14, pp. 1213402. 2023 Sep 08.
1. Kinkade CW
2. Rivera-Núñez Z
3. Thurston SW
4. Kannan K
5. Miller RK
6. Brunner J
7. Wong E
8. Groth S
9. O'Connor TG
10. Barrett ES
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, gestational weight gain, postpartum weight retention and body composition in the UPSIDE cohort.; Environmental health : a global access science source; Vol 22(1), pp. 61. 2023 Sep 02.
1. Kozlosky D
2. Lu A
3. Doherty C
4. Buckley B
5. Goedken MJ
6. Miller RK
7. Barrett ES
8. Aleksunes LM
Cadmium reduces growth of male fetuses by impairing development of the placental vasculature and reducing expression of nutrient transporters.; Toxicology and applied pharmacology; Vol 475, pp. 116636. 2023 Jul 22.
1. Rivera-Núñez Z
2. Hansel M
3. Capurro C
4. Kozlosky D
5. Wang C
6. Doherty CL
7. Buckley B
8. Ohman-Strickland P
9. Miller RK
10. O'Connor TG
11. Aleksunes LM
12. Barrett ES
Prenatal Cadmium Exposure and Maternal Sex Steroid Hormone Concentrations across Pregnancy.; Toxics; Vol 11(7). 2023 Jul 06.
1. Coyte RM
2. Darrah T
3. Olesik J
4. Barrett E
5. O'Connor TG
6. Brunner J
7. Love T
8. Perez-D'Gregorio R
9. Wang HZ
10. Aleksunes LM
11. Buckley B
12. Doherty C
13. Miller RK
Gadolinium during human pregnancy following administration of gadolinium chelate before pregnancy.; Birth defects research. 2023 Jun 19.
1. Coyte RM
2. Darrah T
3. Olesik J
4. Barrett E
5. O'Connor TH
6. Brunner J
7. Love T
8. Perez-D'Gregorio R
9. Wang H
10. Aleksunes LM
11. Buckley B
12. Doherty C
13. Miller RK
Pharmacokinetics of Gadolinium during Human Pregnancy Following Administration of Gadolinium Chelate before Pregnancy; Birth Defects Research. 2023 Jan 01.
1. Shah R
2. Salafia CM
3. Girardi T
4. Persaud P
5. Brunner J
6. Barrett ES
7. O'Connor TA
8. Miller RK
Placental Growth and Development Analyzed through 2D and 3d Fractals; InTech Open. 2023 Jan 01.
1. Panisch LS
2. Murphy HR
3. Wu Q
4. Brunner JL
5. Duberstein ZT
6. Arnold MS
7. Best M
8. Barrett ES
9. Miller RK
10. Qiu X
11. O'Connor TG
Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Diurnal Cortisol Throughout Gestation.; Psychosomatic medicine. 2023 May 18.
1. Lin Y
2. Craig E
3. Liu X
4. Ge Y
5. Brunner J
6. Wang X
7. Yang Z
8. Hopke PK
9. Miller RK
10. Barrett ES
11. Thurston SW
12. Murphy SK
13. O'Connor TG
14. Rich DQ
15. Zhang JJ
Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene in pregnant women in a Northeastern U.S. city: socioeconomic disparity and contributions from air pollution sources.; Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology. 2023 May 09.
1. Ornoy A
2. Miller RK
Yolk sac development, function and role in rodent pregnancy.; Birth defects research. 2023 Mar 22.
1. Moog NK
2. Cummings PD
3. Jackson KL
4. Aschner JL
5. Barrett ES
6. Bastain TM
7. Blackwell CK
8. Bosquet Enlow M
9. Breton CV
10. Bush NR
11. Deoni SCL
12. Duarte CS
13. Ferrara A
14. Grant TL
15. Hipwell AE
16. Jones K
17. Leve LD
18. Lovinsky-Desir S
19. Miller RK
20. Monk C
21. Oken E
22. Posner J
23. Schmidt RJ
24. Wright RJ
25. Entringer S
26. Simhan HN
27. Wadhwa PD
28. O'Connor TG
29. Musci RJ
30. Buss C
Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment in the USA: a retrospective cohort study.; The Lancet. Public health; Vol 8(3), pp. e226-e237. 2023 Mar.
1. Barrett ES
2. Rivera-Núñez Z
3. Getz K
4. Ohman-Strickland P
5. Zhang R
6. Kozlosky D
7. Doherty CL
8. Buckley BT
9. Brunner J
10. Miller RK
11. O'Connor TG
12. Aleksunes LM
Protective role of the placental efflux transporter BCRP/ABCG2 in the relationship between prenatal cadmium exposure, placenta weight, and size at birth.; Environmental research. 2023 Feb 28.
1. Hansel MC
2. Murphy HR
3. Brunner J
4. Wang C
5. Miller RK
6. O'Connor TG
7. Barrett ES
8. Rivera-Núñez Z
Associations between neighborhood stress and maternal sex steroid hormones in pregnancy.; BMC pregnancy and childbirth; Vol 23(1), pp. 730. 2023 Jan 16.
1. Rivera-Núñez Z
2. Kinkade CW
3. Khoury L
4. Brunner J
5. Murphy H
6. Wang C
7. Kannan K
8. Miller RK
9. O'Connor TG
10. Barrett ES
Prenatal perfluoroalkyl substances exposure and maternal sex steroid hormones across pregnancy.; Environmental research. 2023 Jan 05.
1. Sinclair SM
2. Jones JK
3. Miller RK
4. Greene MF
5. Kwo PY
6. Maddrey WC
Final results from the ribavirin pregnancy registry, 2004-2020.; Birth defects research; Vol 114(20), pp. 1376-1391. 2022 Jan 28.
1. Coyte RM
2. Darrah TH
3. Barrett E
4. O'Connor TG
5. Olesik JW
6. Salafia CM
7. Shah R
8. Love T
9. Miller RK
Comparison of trace element concentrations in paired formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded and frozen human placentae.; Placenta; Vol 131, pp. 98-103. 2022 Jan 15.
1. Coyte RM
2. Darrah TH
3. Barrett E
4. O'Connor TH
5. Olesik JW
6. Salafia CM
7. Shah R
8. Love T
9. Miller RK
Comparison of Trace Element Concentrations in Paired formalin-Fixed paraffin-embedded and frozen Human Placentae; PLACENTA. 2022 Jan 01.
1. Barad A
2. Guillet R
3. Pressman EK
4. Katzman PJ
5. Miller RK
6. Darrah TH
7. O'Brien KO
Placental Iron Content is Lower than Previously Estimated and is Associated with Maternal Iron Status in Women at Greater Risk for Gestational Iron Deficiency and Anemia.; The Journal of nutrition. 2021 Dec 07.
1. Narang C
2. Rosen-Carole C
3. Miller RK
4. Perez-D'Gregorio R
5. Shaw MH
6. Schaffer S
7. Jee SH
Who Makes the Choice: Ethical Considerations Regarding Instituting Breastfeeding in a Mother Who Has Compromised Mental Capacity.; Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. 2021 Apr 19.
1. O'Connor T
2. Best M
3. Brunner J
4. Ciesla AA
5. Cunning A
6. Kapula N
7. Kautz A
8. Khoury L
9. Macomber A
10. Meng Y
11. Miller RK
12. Murphy H
13. Salafia CM
14. Vallejo Sefair A
15. Serrano J
16. Barrett E
Cohort profile: Understanding Pregnancy Signals and Infant Development (UPSIDE): a pregnancy cohort study on prenatal exposure mechanisms for child health.; BMJ open; Vol 11(4). 2021 Apr 01.