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ArticleGenomics2009

Changes in the peripheral blood transcriptome associated with occupational benzene exposure identified by cross-comparison on two microarray platforms.

Cliona M McHale, Luoping Zhang, Qing Lan, Guilan Li, Alan E Hubbard, Matthew S Forrest, Roel Vermeulen, Jinsong Chen, Min Shen, Stephen M Rappaport and 3 more

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Article in Genomics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Cliona M McHaleSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. cmchale@berkeley.edu <cmchale@berkeley.edu>
Luoping Zhang
Qing Lan
Guilan Li
Alan E Hubbard
Matthew S Forrest
Roel Vermeulen
Jinsong Chen
Min Shen
Stephen M Rappaport
Songnian Yin
Martyn T Smith
Nathaniel Rothman
University of California, Berkeley · USUnited States Department of Health and Human Services · USNational Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control · CNUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUtrecht University · NL

Funding

Training CoreP42ES004705 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI MORELLO-FROSCH, RACHEL ADELE · 1987 to 2025
$74.6M
STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENAP42ES005948 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI FRY, REBECCA · 1992 to 2017
$45.4M
UNC-CH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &SUSCEPTIBILITYP30ES010126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Melissa A. Troester · 2001 to 2026
$36.3M
Molecular Epidemiology Studies of Occupational and Environmental ExposuresZIACP010121 · NCI · DIVISION OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS · PI ROTHMAN, NATHANIEL · 2009 to 2025
$23.5M
BIOMARKERS OF BENZENE EXPOSURE AND GENOTOXICITYR01ES006721 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI SMITH, MARTYN T · 1993 to 2007
$3.3M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES010126NIEHS NIH HHS P30ES10126NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES004705NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES005948NIEHS NIH HHS P42ES04705NIEHS NIH HHS P42ES05948NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES006721NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES06721
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Benzene is an established cause of leukemia, and possibly lymphoma, in humans, but the underlying molecular pathways remain largely undetermined. We used two microarray platforms to identify global gene expression changes associated with well-characterized occupational benzene exposure in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of a population of shoe-factory workers. Differential expression of 2692 genes (Affymetrix) and 1828 genes (Illumina) was found and the concordance was 50% (based on an average fold-change > or =1.3 from the two platforms), with similar expression ratios among the concordant genes. Four genes (CXCL16, ZNF331, JUN and PF4), which we previously identified by microarray and confirmed by real-time PCR, were among the top 100 genes identified by both platforms in the current study. Gene ontology analysis showed overrepresentation of genes involved in apoptosis among the concordant genes while pathway analysis identified pathways related to lipid metabolism. The two-platform approach allows for robust changes in the PBMC transcriptome of benzene-exposed individuals to be identified.

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Occupational ExposureAdultBenzeneFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearMaleOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisBenzene

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PMID19162166
PMCPMC2693268
OpenAlexW2096830976

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