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Persistent DNA methylation changes associated with prenatal mercury exposure and cognitive performance during childhood

Prenatal exposure to mercury, a known neurotoxic metal, is associated with lower cognitive performance during childhood. Disruption of fetal epigenetic programming could explain mercury’s neurodevelopmental effects. We screened for epigenome-wide methylation differences associated with maternal pren...

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Autores principales: Cardenas, Andres, Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L., Agha, Golareh, Hivert, Marie-France, Litonjua, Augusto A., DeMeo, Dawn L., Lin, Xihong, Amarasiriwardena, Chitra J., Oken, Emily, Gillman, Matthew W., Baccarelli, Andrea A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28325913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00384-5