Low-level environmental cadmium exposure is associated with DNA hypomethylation in Argentinean women

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 879-884

  Hossain, Mohammad Bakhtiar ^a,b   Vahter, Marie ^c   Concha, Gabriela ^d   Broberg, Karin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d National Food Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cadmium; DNMT1; DNMT3B; Epigenetic; Genotype; LINE 1; MLH1; p16; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BORON; CADMIUM; CESIUM; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; LITHIUM; PROTEIN MLH1; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ARGENTINA; ARSENIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SELENIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ZINC;

EID: 84862021998     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104600     Document Type: Article

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