Biomarkers of lead exposure and DNA methylation within retrotransposons

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 790-795

  Wright, Robert O ^a,b   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Wright, Rosalind J ^a,c   Bollati, Valentina ^d   Tarantini, Letizia ^d   Park, Sung Kyun ^e   Hu, Howard ^e   Sparrow, David ^f   Vokonas, Pantel ^f   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a,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 MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Lead; Metals

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LEAD; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEAR ELEMENTS 1; PROTEIN ALU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLLUTANT; RETROPOSON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PATELLA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RETROPOSON; TIBIA; ANALYSIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; POLLUTANT; SPECTROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; LEAD; LEUKOCYTES; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROELEMENTS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 77953281055     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901429     Document Type: Article

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