Article
The delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase polymorphism: higher blood lead levels in lead workers and environmentally exposed children with the 1-2 and 2-2 isozymes.
Environmental research - 1 Dec 1991
Wetmur J G, Lehnert G, Desnick R J
Abstract excerpt
The erythrocyte delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase (ALAD) isozyme phenotypes and the blood lead levels were determined in a population of 202 lead factory workers in Germany and an environmentally exposed population of 1278 children in New York who had elevated free protoporphyrin levels. In both...
Topics
- Alleles
- Child
- Double-Blind Method
- Environmental Exposure
- Germany
- Humans
- Isoenzymes
- Lead
- Lead Poisoning
- Male
- Metallurgy
- New York City
- Occupational Diseases
- Occupational Exposure
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Porphobilinogen Synthase
- Protoporphyrins