Levels of select PCB and PBDE congeners in human postmortem brain reveal possible environmental involvement in 15q11-q13 duplication autism spectrum disorder

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 589-598

  Mitchell, Michelle M ^a,b,c   Woods, Rima ^a,b,c   Chi, Lai Har ^d   Schmidt, Rebecca J ^b,c   Pessah, Isaac N ^b   Kostyniak, Paul J ^d   Lasalle, Janine M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Copy number variation; DNA methylation; Environmental; Epigenetics; Neurodevelopmental

Indexed keywords

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867401557     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.21722     Document Type: Article

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