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Title: Dose-response analysis of infants prenatally exposed to methyl mercury: an application of a single compartment model to single-strand hair analysis.

Authors: Cox, C; Clarkson, T W; Marsh, D O; Amin-Zaki, L; Tikriti, S; Myers, G G

Published In Environ Res, (1989 Aug)

Abstract: A new method of estimating fetal exposure is used in a dose-response analysis of data from the 1971 outbreak of methyl mercury poisoning in rural Iraq. An X-ray fluorescence instrument for the measurement of single strands of human hair was employed to obtain longitudinal profiles recapitulating fetal exposure. Logit and hockey-stick models as well as nonparametric smoothing are used to describe data on delayed development and central nervous system abnormality.

PubMed ID: 2473897 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: No MeSH terms associated with this publication

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