Erratum to "Prenatal and neonatal peripheral blood mercury levels and autism spectrum disorders" [Environ. Res. 133 (2014) 294-303] doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.04.034;Prenatal and neonatal peripheral blood mercury levels and autism spectrum disorders

Environmental Research

Volumn 133, Issue , 2014, Pages 294-303

  Yau, Vincent M ^a   Green, Peter G ^b,c   Alaimo, Christopher P ^b,c   Yoshida, Cathleen K ^a   Lutsky, Marta ^a   Windham, Gayle C ^c   Delorenze, Gerald ^a   Kharrazi, Martin ^c   Grether, Judith K ^c   Croen, Lisa A ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Developmental delay; Intellectual disability; Mercury; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; MATERNAL HEALTH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LASER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETER; MATERNAL SERUM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AUTISM; DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MERCURY; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MERCURY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903373910     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.09.001     Document Type: Erratum

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