Association between genome-wide copy number variation and arsenic-induced skin lesions: a prospective study

• Main Authors: Muhammad G. Kibriya (Author), Farzana Jasmine (Author), Faruque Parvez (Author), Maria Argos (Author), Shantanu Roy (Author), Rachelle Paul-Brutus (Author), Tariqul Islam (Author), Alauddin Ahmed (Author), Muhammad Rakibuz-Zaman (Author), Justin Shinkle (Author), Vesna Slavkovich (Author), Joseph H. Graziano (Author), Habibul Ahsan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Exposure to arsenic in drinking water is a global health problem and arsenic-induced skin lesions are hallmark of chronic arsenic toxicity. We and others have reported germline genetic variations as risk factors for such skin lesions. The role of copy number variation (CNV) in th...