Global DNA hypomethylation is associated with high serum-persistent organic pollutants in Greenlandic inuit

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1547-1552

  Rusiecki, Jennifer A ^a   Baccarelli, Andrea ^b   Bollati, Valentina ^b   Tarantini, Letizia ^b   Moore, Lee E ^c   Bonefeld Jorgensen, Eva C ^d  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Global methylation; Greenland; Hypomethylation; Inuit; Organochlorines; PCBs; Persistent organic pollutants; Pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls; POPs; Serum

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; BISULFITE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DNA; MIREX; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESKIMO; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 58849158772     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11338     Document Type: Article

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