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Prenatal negative life events increases cord blood IgE: interactions with dust mite allergen and maternal atopy

  1. J. L. Peters1,
  2. S. Cohen2,
  3. J. Staudenmayer3,
  4. J. Hosen4,5,
  5. T. A. E. Platts-Mills4,
  6. R. J. Wright6,7,*

Article first published online: 6 FEB 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2012.02791.x

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Allergy

Allergy

Volume 67, Issue 4, pages 545–551, April 2012

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  1. 1

    Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

  2. 2

    Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  3. 3

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

  4. 4

    Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

  5. 5

    Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  6. 6

    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

  7. 7

    The Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

*Correspondence
Rosalind J. Wright, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Tel.: 6175250867
Fax: 6175252578
E-mail: rerjw@channing.harvard.edu

  1. Edited by: Bodo Niggemann

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 13 MAR 2012
  2. Article first published online: 6 FEB 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 29 DEC 2011

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  • U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Grant Numbers: R01ES10932, U01HL072494, R01HL080674, R01HL080674-02S1

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