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Considerations for Using Genetic and Epigenetic Information in Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Standard Setting

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Figure 1 Incorporating genetics and epigenetics into the standard risk assessment paradigm. Reprinted from NeuroToxicology 30(7), Curran, C.P., Park, R.M., Ho, S. M., and Haynes, E. N., Incorporating genetics and genomics in risk assessment for inhaled manganese: From data to policy, 754-760, Copyright 2009, with permission from Elsevier.
Figure 1 Incorporating genetics and epigenetics into the standard risk assessment paradigm. Reprinted from NeuroToxicology 30(7), Curran, C.P., Park, R.M., Ho, S. M., and Haynes, E. N., Incorporating genetics and genomics in risk assessment for inhaled manganese: From data to policy, 754-760, Copyright 2009, with permission from Elsevier.
Figure 2 Possible genetic and epigenetic pathways linking occupational/environmental exposures and adverse effects. (1) Genetic information inherited during meiosis; (2) genotoxic effects; (3) inherited effects that do not depend on DNA sequence variations; and (4) epigenetic effects. Adapted from Bollati and Baccarelli.(12) Reprinted by permission from Macmillian Publishers Ltd: Heredity, Bollati, V. and Baccarelli, A., Environmental epigenetics, 105(1), copyright 2010.
Figure 2 Possible genetic and epigenetic pathways linking occupational/environmental exposures and adverse effects. (1) Genetic information inherited during meiosis; (2) genotoxic effects; (3) inherited effects that do not depend on DNA sequence variations; and (4) epigenetic effects. Adapted from Bollati and Baccarelli.(12) Reprinted by permission from Macmillian Publishers Ltd: Heredity, Bollati, V. and Baccarelli, A., Environmental epigenetics, 105(1), copyright 2010.

Table 1 Guide to Assessing Genetic and Epigenetic Data for Risk Assessment

Table 2 Framework for use of genetic and epigenetic data in occupational and environmental risk assessment