Air pollution and gene-specific methylation in the Normative Aging Study:Association, effect modification, and mediation analysis

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 448-458

  Bind, Marie Abele ^a   Lepeule, Johanna ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Gasparrini, Antonio ^b   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Tarantini, Letizia ^c   Vokonas, Pantel S ^d   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Effect modification; Elderly; Gene specific DNA methylation; Mediation analysis; Traffic

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; FIBRINOGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; OZONE; SULFATE; THROMBOPLASTIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

AETHALOMETER; AGE; AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AIR POLLUTION; EFFECT MODIFICATION; ELDERLY; GENE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLATION; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; THROMBOPLASTIN; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

EID: 84899152478     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.27584     Document Type: Article

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