Global DNA methylation and low-level exposure to benzene

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 84-95

  Fustinoni, Silvia ^a   Rossella, Federica ^a,b   Polledri, Elisa ^a   Bollati, Valentina ^a   Campo, Laura ^a   Byun, Hyang Min ^c   Agnello, L ^a   Consonni, D ^a   Pesatori, Angela C ^a   Baccarelli, A ^a,c   Bertazzi, P A ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b FMP Berlin   (Germany)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzene exposure; Biomonitoring; DNA methylation; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URINE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENOMICS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84861354920     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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