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Kristin J. Marks, 1518 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA. Email: kristin.marks@emory.edu; kma8@cdc.gov

Kristin J. Marks: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft; Penelope P. Howards: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing; Melissa M. Smarr: Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing; W. Dana Flanders: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing; Kate Northstone: Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing, Project administration; Johnni H. Daniel: Supervision, Writing – review & editing; Antonia M. Calafat: Investigation, Writing – review & editing; Andreas Sjödin: Investigation, Writing – review & editing; Michele Marcus: Writing – review & editing, Project administration; Terryl J. Hartman: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing.

We are extremely grateful to all the families who took part in this study, the midwives for their help in recruiting them, and the whole ALSPAC team, which includes interviewers, computer and laboratory technicians, clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, managers, receptionists, and nurses.

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 217065/Z/19/Z) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. This publication is the work of the authors and they will serve as guarantors for the contents of this paper. A comprehensive list of grants funding is available on the ALSPAC website (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/external/documents/grant-acknowledgements.pdf). This work was specifically funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (AY5350).

This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Research Participation Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and CDC.

Keywords:

  • Science & Technology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences & Ecology
  • Puberty
  • Menarche
  • Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances
  • Polychlorinated biphenyls
  • Organochlorine pesticides
  • ALSPAC
  • ORGANIC POLLUTANTS POPS
  • IN-UTERO EXPOSURE
  • POLYCHLORINATED-BIPHENYLS
  • STOCKHOLM CONVENTION
  • PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES
  • ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES
  • NON-PARTICIPANTS
  • CORD BLOOD
  • FOLLOW-UP
  • AGE

Prenatal exposure to mixtures of persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals and early menarche in a population-based cohort of British girls

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Journal Title:

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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Volume 276

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, Pages 116705-116705

Type of Work:

Article | Post-print: After Peer Review

Abstract:

We examined the association of prenatal exposure to persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals as a mixture and early menarche (<11.5 years) and observed largely null associations.

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This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/rdf).
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