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Exposure of Greenlandic Inuit and South African VhaVenda men to the persistent DDT metabolite is associated with an altered sperm epigenome at regions implicated in paternal epigenetic transmission and developmental disease – a cross-sectional study
2022-08-15
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<h4>Background</h4> The persistent organochlorine dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is banned world-wide due to its negative health effects and persistence in the environment. It is exceptionally used as an insecticide for malaria control. Exposure occurs in regions where DDT is applied, as well as in the arctic where it’s endocrine disrupting metabolite, p,p’- dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene ( p,p’- DDE)...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 99196028-990f-5a40-a4f3-ea20eeb96f79
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.08.15.504029
