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. 1989 Aug;49(2):318-32.
doi: 10.1016/s0013-9351(89)80075-1.

Dose-response analysis of infants prenatally exposed to methyl mercury: an application of a single compartment model to single-strand hair analysis

C Cox  1 , T W Clarkson, D O Marsh, L Amin-Zaki, S Tikriti, G G Myers
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Dose-response analysis of infants prenatally exposed to methyl mercury: an application of a single compartment model to single-strand hair analysis

C Cox et al. Environ Res. 1989 Aug.
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Abstract

A new method of estimating fetal exposure is used in a dose-response analysis of data from the 1971 outbreak of methyl mercury poisoning in rural Iraq. An X-ray fluorescence instrument for the measurement of single strands of human hair was employed to obtain longitudinal profiles recapitulating fetal exposure. Logit and hockey-stick models as well as nonparametric smoothing are used to describe data on delayed development and central nervous system abnormality.

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