Superfund Research Program

Alison P. Sanders

University of Pittsburgh
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Email: aps109@pitt.edu

Projects

• University of Pittsburgh: Metal mixture effects on mitochondrial dysfunction in kidney development and maturation: Towards a whole mixture risk assessment (2023-2026)

Publications

2022

• Rosa MJ, Politis MD, Tamayo-Ortiz M, Colicino E, Pantic I, Estrada-Gutierrez G, Tolentino MC, Espejel-Nunez A, Solano-Gonzalez M, Kloog I, Rivera NR, Baccarelli A, Tellez-Rojo M, Wright RO, Just AC, Sanders AP. 2022. Critical windows of perinatal particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure and preadolescent kidney function. Environ Res 204:112062. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.112062 PMID:34537199 PMCID:PMC8678189

2016

• Kappil M, Wright RO, Sanders AP. 2016. Developmental origins of common disease: epigenetic contributions to obesity. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 17:177-192. doi:10.1146/annurev-genom-090314-050057 PMID:27216778 PMCID:PMC5045029

2015

• Gona S, Sanders AP, Miranda ML, Fry RC. 2015. Prenatal exposure to cadmium and cotinine and CpG island DNA methylation in mother-infant pairs. Genom Data 5:378-380. doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2015.07.001 PMID:26295018 PMCID:PMC4538703
• Sanders AP, Burris HH, Just AC, Motta V, Svensson K, Mercado-Garcia A, Pantic I, Schwartz J, Tellez-Rojo MM, Wright RO, Baccarelli A. 2015. microRNA expression in the cervix during pregnancy is associated with length of gestation. Epigenetics 10(3):221-228. doi:10.1080/15592294.2015.1006498 PMID:25611922 PMCID:PMC4623248
• Sanders AP, Claus Henn B, Wright RO. 2015. Perinatal and childhood exposure to cadmium, manganese, and metal mixtures and effects on cognition and behavior: a review of recent literature. Curr Environ Health Rep 2(3):284-294. doi:10.1007/s40572-015-0058-8 PMID:26231505 PMCID:PMC4531257

2014

• Sanders AP, Desrosiers TA, Warren JL, Herring AH, Enright D, Olshan A, Meyer RE, Fry RC. 2014. Association between arsenic, cadmium, manganese, and lead levels in private wells and birth defects prevalence in North Carolina: a semi-ecologic study. BMC Public Health 14:955. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-955 PMID:25224535 PMCID:PMC4190372
• Sanders AP, Miller SK, Nguyen V, Kotch JB, Fry RC. 2014. Toxic metal levels in children residing in a smelting craft village in Vietnam: A pilot biomonitoring study. BMC Public Health 14:8. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-114 PMID:24495283 PMCID:PMC3922956

2013

• Ahir B, Sanders AP, Rager JE, Fry RC. 2013. Systems biology and birth defects prevention: Blockade of the glucocorticoid receptor prevents arsenic-induced birth defects. Environ Health Perspect 121(3):332-338. doi:10.1289/ehp.1205659 PMID:23458687 PMCID:PMC3616967
• Sanders AP, Smeester L, Rojas D, DeBussycher T, Wu MC, Wright FA, Zhou Y, Laine JE, Rager JE, Swamy GK, Ashley-Koch A, Miranda ML, Fry RC. 2013. Cadmium exposure and the epigenome: Exposure-associated patterns of DNA methylation in leukocytes from mother-baby pairs. Epigenetics 9(2):29-38. doi:10.4161/epi.26798 PMID:24169490 PMCID:PMC3962531

2012

• Sanders AP, Flood K, Chiang S, Herring AH, Wolf L, Fry RC. 2012. Towards prenatal biomonitoring in North Carolina: assessing arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead levels in pregnant women. PLoS One 7(3):e31354. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031354 PMID:22427803 PMCID:PMC3302877

2011

• Sanders AP, Messier KP, Shehee M, Rudo K, Serre ML, Fry RC. 2011. Arsenic in North Carolina: public health implications. Environ Int 38:10-16. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2011.08.005 PMID:21982028 PMCID:PMC3539775