Association of Low-Dose Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants with Global DNA Hypomethylation in Healthy Koreans
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Association of Low-Dose Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants with Global DNA Hypomethylation in Healthy Koreans
BACKGROUND Global DNA methylation levels have been reported to be inversely associated with blood levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), xenobiotics that accumulate in adipose tissue. Whether these associations extend to a population with much lower concentrations of POPs is not known. OBJECTIVES This study was performed to examine whether low-dose exposure to POPs was associated wit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901131