Air Pollution and Epigenetics: Recent Findings

Current environmental health reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-45

  Breton, Carrie V ^a   Marutani, Amy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Benzo a pyrene (B a P); DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histones; Long interspersed nuclear element 1 (LINE 1); miRNA; Particulate matter (PM); Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000903733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21965412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-013-0001-9     Document Type: Review

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