Persistence of Breakage in Specific Chromosome Bands 6 Years After Acute Exposure to Oil
RESEARCH ARTICLE Persistence of Breakage in Specific Chromosome Bands 6 Years after Acute Exposure to Oil Alexandra Francés1, Kristin Hildur1, Joan Albert Barberà2,3, Gema Rodríguez-Trigo2,4, Jan-Paul Zock5,6,7, Jesús Giraldo8, Gemma Monyarch1, Emma Rodriguez-Rodriguez9, Fernanda de Castro Reis1, Ana Souto9, Federico P. Gómez2,3, Francisco Pozo- Rodríguez2,10, Cristina Templado1, Carme Fuster1* 1 Unitat de Biologia CelÁlular i Genètica Mèdica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain, 2 CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Bunyola, Mallorca, Spain, a11111 3 Departament de Medicina Respiratòria, Hospital Clínic-Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, 4 Departamento de Medicina Respiratoria, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 5 Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, 6 Institut Recerca Medica, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, 7 CIBER Epidemiologia i Salut Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, 8 Institut de Neurociències and Unitat de Bioestadística, Facultat de Medicina, UAB, Bellaterra, Spain, 9 Departamento de Medicina Respiratoria, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, 10 Departamento de Medicina Respiratoria, Unidad Epidemiologia Clínica, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain OPEN ACCESS * carme.fuster@uab.es Citation: Francés A, Hildur K, Barberà JA, Rodríguez-Trigo G, Zock J-P, Giraldo J, et al. (2016) Persistence of Breakage in Specific Chromosome Bands 6 Years after Acute Exposure to Oil. PLoS Abstract ONE 11(8): e0159404. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0159404 Editor: Roberto Amendola, ENEA, ITALY Background Received: December 21, 2015 The identification of breakpoints involved in chromosomal damage could help to detect Accepted: July 2, 2016 genes involved in genetic disorders, most notably cancer.
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