Characterising the epigenome as a key component of the fetal exposome in evaluating in utero exposures and childhood cancer risk.

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Published in Mutagenesis on February 26, 2015

Authors

Akram Ghantous, Hector Hernandez-Vargas, Graham Byrnes1, Terence Dwyer2, Zdenko Herceg

Author Affiliations

1: Biostatistics Groups, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 150 rue Albert-Thomas, F-69008 Lyon, France.
2: The George Institute for Global Health and Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford Martin School | University of Oxford, 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD, UK.

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