Air pollution and DNA methylation: Interaction by psychological factors in the va normative aging study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-232

  Madrigano, Jaime ^a,b   Baccarelli, Andrea ^b   Mittleman, Murray A ^b,d   Sparrow, David ^e,f,g   Spiro, Avron ^e,g,h   Vokonas, Pantel S ^e,g   Cantone, Laura ^c   Kubzansky, Laura ^b   Schwartz, Joel ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; DNA methylation; psychology

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; BLACK CARBON; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; BLOOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; MORBIDITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIMISM; PARTICULATE MATTER; PESSIMISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AFFECT; AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; ANXIETY; BOSTON; DEPRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SOOT; VETERANS;

EID: 84864423021     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr523     Document Type: Article

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