Long-term health consequences of prenatal arsenic exposure: Links to the genome and the epigenome

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 9-12

  Bailey, Kathryn ^b   Fry, Rebecca C ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Epigenome; Genome; Prenatal exposure

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84898647124     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2014-0006     Document Type: Article

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