Expression of the sFLT1 Gene in Cord Blood Cells Is Associated to Maternal Arsenic Exposure and Decreased Birth Weight

Sylvie Remy; Eva Govarts; Liesbeth Bruckers; Melissa Paulussen; Britt Wens; Elly Den Hond; Vera Nelen; Willy Baeyens; Nicolas van Larebeke; Ilse Loots; Isabelle Sioen; Greet Schoeters

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092677

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Expression of the sFLT1 Gene in Cord Blood Cells Is Associated to Maternal Arsenic Exposure and Decreased Birth Weight

Sylvie Remy ,

* E-mail: sylvie.remy@vito.be

Affiliations Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Eva Govarts,

Affiliation Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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Liesbeth Bruckers,

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Melissa Paulussen,

Affiliation Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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Britt Wens,

Affiliations Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Elly Den Hond,

Affiliation Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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Vera Nelen,

Affiliation Department of Health, Provincial Institute for Hygiene, Antwerp, Belgium
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Willy Baeyens,

Affiliation Department of Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry (AEGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Nicolas van Larebeke,

Affiliations Department of Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry (AEGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Radiotherapy and Experimental cancer research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Ilse Loots,

Affiliation Department Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Isabelle Sioen,

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, FWO Research Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
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Greet Schoeters

Affiliations Environmental Risk and Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Expression of the sFLT1 Gene in Cord Blood Cells Is Associated to Maternal Arsenic Exposure and Decreased Birth Weight

Sylvie Remy,
Eva Govarts,
Liesbeth Bruckers,
Melissa Paulussen,
Britt Wens,
Elly Den Hond,
Vera Nelen,
Willy Baeyens,
Nicolas van Larebeke,
Ilse Loots

Published: March 24, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092677

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