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Ethnic, Geographic, and Genetic Differences in Arsenic Metabolism at Low Arsenic Exposure: A Preliminary Analysis in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
International journal of environmental research and public health - 5 Jun 2018
Balakrishnan Poojitha, Jones Miranda R, Vaidya Dhananjay, Tellez-Plaza Maria, Post Wendy S, Kaufman Joel D, Bielinski Suzette J, Taylor Kent, Francesconi Kevin, Goessler Walter, Navas-Acien Ana
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the effect of candidate variants in AS3MT (arsenic (III) methyltransferase) with urinary arsenic metabolites and their principal components in a subset of 264 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Urinary arsenic species, including inorganic arsenic (iAs), monomethylarsonate (MMA), dimethylarsinate (DMA), and arsenobetaine (Ab), were measured using high performance...
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