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The childhood leukemia international consortiumCatherine Metayer
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, 1995 University Avenue, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA 94704 1070, United States Electronic address
Cancer Epidemiol 37:336-47. 2013....
Household vacuum cleaners vs. the high-volume surface sampler for collection of carpet dust samples in epidemiologic studies of childrenJoanne S Colt
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 6120 Executive Blvd MSC 7240, Bethesda, MD, 20892 7240, USA
Environ Health 7:6. 2008..Here, we compare levels of pesticides and other compounds in dust from household vacuums to that collected using the HVS3...- Genetic variants in the folate pathway and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaCatherine Metayer
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1995 University Avenue, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA 94704 7392, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:1243-58. 2011..We examined whether child's germline genetic variation in the folate pathway is associated with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and whether periconception maternal folate and alcohol intake modify the risk... - Residential exposures to pesticides and childhood leukaemiaCatherine Metayer
School of Public Health, University of California, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 500, Berkeley, CA 94720 7080, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 132:212-9. 2008..A better quantification of children's exposures to pesticides at home is critical to the evaluation of childhood leukaemia risk, especially for future gene-environment interaction studies... - HLA-DP genetic variation, proxies for early life immune modulation and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia riskKevin Y Urayama
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Blood 120:3039-47. 2012..These findings support an immune mechanism in the etiology of childhood ALL involving the HLA-DPB1 gene in the context of an insufficiently modulated immune system... - Haplotypes of DNA repair and cell cycle control genes, X-ray exposure, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaAnand P Chokkalingam
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, 1995 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:1721-30. 2011..These abnormalities may be influenced by altered DNA repair and cell cycle control processes... - Determinants of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels in house dustTodd Whitehead
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 21:123-32. 2011..As self-reported data and outdoor PAH sources were only marginally predictive of observed PAH levels, we recommend that PAH concentrations be measured directly in dust samples for use in epidemiological studies... - Genetic polymorphisms in adaptive immunity genes and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaJeffrey S Chang
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2152-63. 2010..The lack of immune priming in early childhood may result in abnormal immune responses to infections later in life and increase ALL risk... - Variation in xenobiotic transport and metabolism genes, household chemical exposures, and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaAnand P Chokkalingam
Division of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, 1995 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:1367-75. 2012..We sought to evaluate the role of genes involved in xenobiotic transport and metabolism in childhood ALL risk, both alone and in conjunction with household chemical exposures previously found to be associated with childhood ALL risk... - Early life exposure to infections and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaKevin Y Urayama
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 128:1632-43. 2011..45, 95% CI: 0.25-0.79). Evidence of a protective role for infection-related exposures early in life is supported by findings in both the non-Hispanic white and Hispanic populations within the NCCLS... - Is house-dust nicotine a good surrogate for household smoking?Todd Whitehead
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1113-23. 2009.... - Fetal growth and body size genes and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaAnand P Chokkalingam
School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:1577-85. 2012..Additional studies are needed to confirm these findings and identify specific causal variants... - Reliability of maternal-reports regarding the use of household pesticides: experience from a case-control study of childhood leukemiaDanna A Slusky
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 36:375-80. 2012..The aim of this study is to assess the reliability of self-reported household use of pesticides and potential differences in reliability by case-control status, and by socio-demographic characteristics... - Determinants of agricultural pesticide concentrations in carpet dustRobert B Gunier
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Berkeley, California 94704, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:970-6. 2011..Residential proximity to agricultural pesticide applications has been used as a surrogate for exposure in epidemiologic studies, although little is known about the relationship with levels of pesticides in homes... - Household exposure to paint and petroleum solvents, chromosomal translocations, and the risk of childhood leukemiaGhislaine Scelo
School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94704 7380, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:133-9. 2009..Few studies have examined the association between home use of solvents and paint and the risk of childhood leukemia... - Estimating exposures to indoor contaminants using residential dustTodd Whitehead
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 21:549-64. 2011..We conclude our review with a discussion of the current gaps in knowledge of worldwide dust levels and suggestions for how residential-dust measurements could be used to describe human exposures to chemicals in developing countries... - Exposure to electrical contact currents and the risk of childhood leukemiaMonique Does
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Radiat Res 175:390-6. 2011.... - Characterization of residential pesticide use and chemical formulations through self-report and household inventory: the Northern California Childhood Leukemia studyNeela Guha
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 121:276-82. 2013..Exposure has generally been self-reported, so the assessment is potentially limited by recall bias and lack of information on specific chemicals... 
Early life exposure to infections and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaKevin Y Urayama
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Int J Cancer 128:1632-43. 2011..45, 95% CI: 0.25-0.79). Evidence of a protective role for infection-related exposures early in life is supported by findings in both the non-Hispanic white and Hispanic populations within the NCCLS...- Diagnostic X-rays and risk of childhood leukaemiaKaren Bartley
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 39:1628-37. 2010..The association between diagnostic X-ray exposures early in life and increased risk of childhood leukaemia remains unclear... - MDR1 gene variants, indoor insecticide exposure, and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaKevin Y Urayama
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0560, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1172-7. 2007.... - Comparison of racial differences in childhood cancer risk in case-control studies and population-based cancer registriesDanna A Slusky
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 36:36-44. 2012.... - Profound deficit of IL10 at birth in children who develop childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaJeffrey S Chang
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0520, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:1736-40. 2011..The current study examines the association between neonatal cytokine profiles, a proxy measure for a child's prenatal immune development, and childhood ALL... - Cytogenetics of Hispanic and White children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in CaliforniaMelinda C Aldrich
University of California Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 500, Berkeley, CA 94720 7380, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:578-81. 2006..The mechanistic basis for this 2-fold variation in frequency of TEL-AML1 may be due to ethnic-specific risk factors or genetics and should be explored further... - Parental smoking and the risk of childhood leukemiaJeffrey S Chang
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7380, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:1091-100. 2006..004). These results strongly suggest that exposure to paternal preconception smoking alone or in combination with postnatal passive smoking may be important in the risk of childhood leukemia... - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in residential dust: sources of variabilityTodd P Whitehead
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 121:543-50. 2013..Conclusions: Our findings indicate that it may be feasible to use residential dust for retrospective assessment of PAH exposures in studies of health effects...