Epigenome-wide assessment of DNA methylation in the placenta and arsenic exposure in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study (USA)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1253-1260

  Green, Benjamin B ^a   Karagas, Margaret R ^a   Punshon, Tracy ^b   Jackson, Brian P ^b   Robbins, David J ^c   Houseman, E Andres ^d   Marsit, Carmen J ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CACODYLIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; METHANEARSONIC ACID; DANGEROUS GOODS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; URINALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DANGEROUS GOODS; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

ARSENIC; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84966713398     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510437     Document Type: Article

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