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N-acetyltransferase 1 polymorphism increases cotinine levels in Caucasian children exposed to secondhand smoke: the CCAAPS birth cohort.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Apr 2015
LeMasters G K, Khurana Hershey G K, Sivaprasad U, Martin L J, Pilipenko V, Ericksen M B, Burkle J W, Lindsey M A, Bernstein D I, Lockey J E, Gareri J, Lubetsky A, Koren G, Biagini Myers J M
Abstract excerpt
Cotinine is a proxy for secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. Genetic variation along nicotine and cotinine metabolic pathways may alter the internal cotinine dose, leading to misinterpretations of exposure-health outcome associations. Caucasian children with available SHS exposure and hair cotinine data were genotyped for metabolism-related genes. SHS-exposed children had 2.4-fold higher hair cotinine...
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