Making sense of OMICS data in population-based environmental health studies

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 468-479

  Kyrtopoulos, Soterios A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Epigenomics; Metabolomics; Metabonomics; Molecular epidemiology; Proteomics; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; BCL2 RELATED PROTEIN A1; CADMIUM; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1A2; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 3; PROTHROMBIN; SECRETORY COMPONENT;

ALCOHOL METABOLISM; APOPTOSIS; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLOMICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL DIFFERENCE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BIOMARKERS; EPIGENOMICS; METABOLOMICS; METABONOMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GENOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PROTEOMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING;

EID: 84882263216     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.21778     Document Type: Review

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