Cadmium-associated differential methylation throughout the placental genome: Epigenome-wide association study of two U.S. birth cohorts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Everson, Todd M ^a   Punshon, Tracy ^b   Jackson, Brian P ^b   Hao, Ke ^c   Lambertini, Luca ^c   Chen, Jia ^c   Karagas, Margaret R ^d,e   Marsit, Carmen J ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ACOT7 GENE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXOC3L4 GENE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GAS7 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PLACENTA; PLACENTA TISSUE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RHODE ISLAND; RNA SEQUENCE; RORA GENE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SREBF1 GENE; TNFAIP2 GENE; Z SCORE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; POLLUTANT; TOXICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CADMIUM; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RHODE ISLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85041389744     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP2192     Document Type: Article

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