Title: Gene expression in benzene-exposed workers

Accession Number: GSE9569

Link to Dataset: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE9569

Repository: Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)

Data Type(s): Gene Expression

Experiment Type(s): Expression profiling by array

Organism(s): Homo sapiens

Summary: The effect of benzene exposure on peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) gene expression was examined in a population of shoe-factory workers with well-characterized occupational exposures to benzene. We compared data from two microarray platforms (Illumina and Affymetrix).

Publication(s) associated with this dataset:

• McHale CM, Zhang L, Lan Q, Li G, Hubbard AE, Forrest MS, Vermeulen R, Chen J, Shen M, Rappaport SM, Yin S, Smith MT, Rothman N. 2009. Changes in the peripheral blood transcriptome associated with occupational benzene exposure identified by cross-comparison on two microarray platforms. Genomics 93(4):343-349. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.12.006 PMID:19162166 PMCID:PMC2693268

Project(s) associated with this dataset:

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Development and Application of Biomarkers of Exposure
• University of California-Berkeley: Quantitative Biology: Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Computation