Beyond the mean: Quantile regression to explore the association of air pollution with gene-specific methylation in the normative aging study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 759-765

  Bind, Marie Abele C ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Peters, Annette ^a,b   Baccarelli, Andrea A ^a   Tarantini, Letizia ^c,d   Cantone, Laura ^c,d   Vokonas, Pantel S ^e,f   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Schwartz, Joel D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^e VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; THROMBOPLASTIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; DNA METHYLATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MASSACHUSETTS; TOXICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BOSTON; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84938370404     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307824     Document Type: Article

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