Variants in iron metabolism genes predict higher blood lead levels in young children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1261-1266

  Hopkins, Marianne R ^a,b   Ettinger, Adrienne S ^a,c,d   Hernández Avilla, Mauricio ^e   Schwartz, Joel ^a,c   Téllez Rajo, Marth María ^f   Lamadrid Figueroa, Héctor ^f   Bellinger, David ^a,b   Hu, Howard ^a,d   Wright, Robert O ^a,b,c,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Ministry of Health   (Mexico)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

C282Y; Chidren; H63D; Hemochromatosis; Iron; Lead; P570S; Polymorphism; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

HFE PROTEIN; LEAD; TRANSFERRIN;

ALLELE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON METABOLISM; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MEXICO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; LEAD; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEXICO; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 54149085333     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11233     Document Type: Article

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