Elevated Alu retroelement copy number among workers exposed to diesel engine exhaust.

Jason Y Y WongRichard CawthonYufei DaiRoel C H VermeulenBryan A BassigWei HuHuawei DuanYong NiuGeorge S DownwardShuguang LengBu-Tian JiWei FuJun XuKees MeliefsteBaosen ZhouJufang YangDianzhi RenMeng YeXiaowei JiaTao MengPing BinH Dean Hosgood IiiDebra T SilvermanNathaniel RothmanYuxin ZhengQing Lan

Published in: Occupational and environmental medicine (2021)

Our findings suggest that DEE exposure may contribute to genomic instability. Further investigations of environmental pollutants, Alu copy number and carcinogenesis are warranted.

Keyphrases

copy number
mitochondrial dna
genome wide
dna methylation
particulate matter
heavy metals
human health
gene expression
risk assessment
life cycle