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Bocskay KA, Tang D, Orjuela MA, Liu X, Warburton DP, Perera FP. Chromosomal aberrations in cord blood are associated with prenatal exposure to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 14(2):506-11, February, 2005. Abstract | Full-Text (PDF) (7 pp, 122 K) | PubMed

Chew G, Carlton E, Kass D, Hernandez M, Clarke B, Tiven J, Garfinkel R, Nagle S, Evans D. Determinants of cockroach and mouse exposure and associations with asthma among families and the elderly living in New York City public housing. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, in press, 2006.

Goldstein IF, Perzanowski MS, Lendor C, Garfinkel RS, Hoepner LA, Chew GL, Perera FP, Miller RL. Prevalence of allergy symptoms and total IgE in a New York City cohort and their association with birth order. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology, 137(3):249-257, June 16, 2005. Abstract | PubMed

Miller T, Rauh VA, Glied S, Hattis D, Rundle AG, Andrews H, Perera FP. The economic impact of early life environmental tobacco smoke exposure: early intervention for developmental delay. Published Online, Environmental Health Perspectives, July 11, 2006.

Perera FP, Rauh VA, Whyatt RM, Tsai WY, Tang D, Diaz D, Hoepner L, Barr DB, Tu YH,
Camann DE, Kinney PL. Effect of prenatal exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons on neurodevelopment in the first three years of life among inner-city
children. Environmental Health Perspectives,114(8):1287-92, August, 2006. Abstract | Full-Text (PDF) (6pp., 129Kb)

Perera FP, Rauh V, Whyatt RM, Tang D, Tsai WY, Bernert JT, Tu YH, Andrews H, Barr DB, Camann DE, Diaz D, Dietrich J, Reyes A, Kinney PL. A summary of recent findings on birth outcomes and developmental effects of prenatal ETS, PAH, and pesticide exposures. Neurotoxicology, 26:573-87, August, 2005.

Perera FP, Tang D, Whyatt RM, Lederman SA, Jedrychowski W. DNA damage from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons measured by benzo[a]pyrene-DNA adducts in mothers and newborns from Northern Manhattan, the World Trade Center area, Poland, and China. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 14(709-714), March 2005.

Perzanowski MS, Miller RL, Thorne PS, Barr RG, Divjan A, Sheares BJ, Garfinkel RS, Goldstein IF, Perera FP, Chew GL. Endotoxin in inner-city homes and the association with atopy and wheeze in the first two years of life. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 117(5):1082-1089, May 2006.

Rauh VA, Garfinkel R, Perera FP, Andrews H, Barr D, Whitehead D, Tang D, Whyatt RM 2006. Impact of prenatal chlorpyrifos exposure on neurodevelopment in the first three years of life among inner-city children. Pediatrics, 2006 Dec;118(6):e1845-59. Epub 2006 Nov 20. Abstract | Full-Text (PDF) (6pp., 124Kb) | PubMed

Vásquez VB, Minkler M, Shepard P. Promoting environmental health policy through community based participatory research: A case study from Harlem, New York. Journal of Urban Health, 83(1):101-110, 2006.

Whyatt RM, Camann D, Perera FP, Rauh VA, Tang D, Kinney PL, Garfinke1 R, Andrews H, Hoepner L, Barr DB. Biomarkers in assessing residential insecticide exposures during pregnancy and effects on fetal growth. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 206(2):246-254, August 15, 2005.

Review Papers

Bradman A, Whyatt RM. Characterizing exposures to non-persistent pesticides during pregnancy and early childhood in the National Children’s Study: A review of monitoring and measurement methodologies. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113:1092-9, August, 2005.

Dietrich KN, Eskenazi B, Schantz S, Yolton K, Rauh VA, Johnson CB, Alkon A, Canfield RL, Pessah IN, Berman RF. Principles and practices of neurodevelopmental assessment in children: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113:1437-46, October, 2005.

Eggleston PA, Diette G, Lipsett M, Lewis T, Tager I, McConnell R, Chrischilles E, Lanphear B, Miller R, and Krishnan J. Lessons learned for the study of childhood asthma from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research, Environmental Health Perspectives, 113 (10): 1430-1436, 2005.

Eskenazi B, Gladstone EA, Berkowitz GS, Drew CH, Faustman EM, Holland NT, Lanphear B, Meisel SJ, Perera FP, Rauh VA, Sweeney A, Whyatt RM, Yolton K. Mini-Monograph: Methodologic and logistic issues in conducting longitudinal birth cohort studies: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research.Environmental Health Perspectives, published online, June 24, 2005.

Fenske RA, Bradman A, Whyatt RM, Wolff MS, Barr DB. Lessons learned for the assessment of children’s pesticide exposure: Critical sampling and analytical issues for future studies. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113:1455-62, October, 2005.

Gilliland F, Avol E, Kinney P, Jerrett M, Dvonch T, Lurmann F, Buckley T, Breysse P, Keeler G, de Villiers T, McConnell R. Air pollution exposure assessment for epidemiologic studies of pregnant women and children: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113: 1447-54, October, 2005.

Özkaynak H, Whyatt R, Needham LL, Akland G, Quackenboss J. Mini-Monograph: Exposure assessment implications for the design and implementation of the National Children's Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, published online May 12, 2005.

Previously Published Papers

Adibi J, Perera FP, Jedrychowski W, Camaan D, Barr D, Whyatt RM. Prenatal exposures to phthalates in New York City and Krakow, Poland, Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(14):1719-22, 2003. Abstract | Full | PDF (4pp., 124Kb)

Adibi J, Whyatt RM, Camann DE, Peki K, Jedrychowski W, Perera FP. Personal air
monitoring of phthalate diesters in two urban populations. In: Proceedings of the 9th
International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Volume IV; Ed. Hal Levin,
2002.

Barr DB, Barr JR, Maggio VL, Whitehead RD, Sadowski MA, Whyatt RM, Needham LL. A
multi-analyte method for the quantification of contemporary pesticides in human serum and plasma using high resolution mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences, 778(1-2):99-111, 2002.

Carlton E, Moats HL, Feinberg M, Shepard P, Garfinkel R, Whyatt RM, Evans D. Pesticide sales in low-income, minority neighborhoods. Journal of Community Health, 29(3):231-244, 2004.

Chew GL, Perzanowski MS, Miller RL, Correa JC, Hoepner LA, Jusino CM, Becker MG, Kinney PL. Distribution and determinants of mouse allergen exposure in low-incomeNew York City apartments. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(10):1348-51, August 2003. Abstract | Full | PDF (4pp.,127Kb)

Evans D, Fullilove MT, Green L, Levison M. Awareness of environmental risks and protective actions among minority women in Northern Manhattan. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(Supp2):271-5, 2002. Full | PDF (5pp., 520Kb)

Fullilove M. Links between the social and physical environments. Pediatric Clinics of North America, review, 48(5):1253-66, 2001.

Green L, Fullilove M, Evans D, Shepard P. "Hey, Mom, Thanks!": Use of focus groups in the development of place-specific materials for a community environmental action campaign. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(Supp2):265-9, April 2002. Full | PDF (5pp., 508Kb)

Kinney PL, Northridge M, Gronning E, Joseph E, Frantz S, Prakash S. On the front lines of environmental interventions to reduce asthma. American Journal of Public Health, 92:1-3, 2002.

Kinney PL, Chillrud SN, Ramstrom S, Ross J, Spengler JD. Exposures to multiple air toxics in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(4):539-46, August, 2002.

Lederman SA, Rauh VA, Weiss L, Stein JL, Hoepner LA, Garfinkel R, Becker M, Perera FP. The Effects of the World Trade Center event on birth outcomes among term deliveries at three lower Manhattan hospitals, Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(17):1772-78, 2004. Abstract | Full | PDF (7pp., 1.1Mb)

Meyer IH, Whyatt RM, Perera FP, Ford JG. Risk for asthma in one-year-old infants residing in New York City high-risk neighborhoods. Journal of Asthma, 40(5):545-50, 2003.

Miller RL, Garfinkel R, Horton M, Camann D, Perera FP, Whyatt R, Kinney PL. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, environmental tobacco smoke, and respiratory symptoms in an inner-city birth cohort, Chest, 136, 1071-78, 2004. Abstract | PubMed

Miller RL, Chew G, Bell CA, Biedermann SA, Aggarwal M, Kinney PL, Tsai WY, Whyatt RM, Perera FP, Ford JG. Prenatal exposure, maternal sensitization, and sensitization in utero to indoor allergens in an inner-city cohort. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 164(995-1001), 2001. Abstract | Full(4pp., 124Kb) | PubMed

Perera FP, Tang D, Tu YH, Cruz, LA, Borjas M, Bernert T, Whyatt RM. Biomarkers in maternal and newborn blood indicate heightened fetal susceptibility to procarcinogenic DNA damage. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(10):1133-6, 2004. Abstract | Full | PDF (4pp., 121Kb)

Perera FP, Rauh V, Whyatt RM, Tsai WY, Bernert JT, Tu YH, Andrews H, Ramirez J, Qu L, Tang D. Molecular evidence of an interaction between prenatal environmental exposures on birth outcomes in a multiethnic population. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(5):626-30, 2004. Abstract | Full | PDF (5pp.,122Kb)

Perera FP, Rauh V, Tsai WY, Kinney PL, Camann DE, Barr DB, Garfinkel R, Tu Y-H, Diaz D, Dietrich J, Whyatt RM. Effects of transplacental exposure to environmental pollutants on birth outcomes in a multi-ethnic population. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(2): 201-5, February 2003. Abstract | Full | PDF (5pp., 322Kb)

Perera FP, Illman SM, Kinney PL, Whyatt RM, Kelvin EA, Shepard P, Evans D, Fullilove M, Ford JG, Miller RL, Meyer I, Rauh V. The challenge of preventing environmentally
related disease in young children: Community-based research in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2):197-204, 2002. Abstract | Full | PDF (5pp., 122Kb)

Perera FP, Hemminki K, Jedrychowski W, Whyatt R, Campbell U, Hsu Y, Santella R, Albertini R, O’Neill JP. In utero DNA damage from environmental pollution is associated with somatic gene mutation in newborns. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 11:1134-37, 2002.

Perera FP. Molecular epidemiology: On the path to prevention? Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 92(8):602-12, 2000.

Perera FP, Weinstein IB. Molecular epidemiology: Recent advances and future directions. Carcinogenesis, 21(3):517-24, 2000.

Perera FP, Jedrychowski W, Rauh V, Whyatt RM. Molecular epidemiologic research on the effects of environmental pollutants on the fetus. Environmental Health Perspectives, 107 (Suppl.3):451-460, 1999. Abstract | Full

Perera FP, Whyatt RM, Jedrychowski W, Rauh V, Manchester D, Santella RM, Ottman R. Recent Developments in Molecular Epidemiology: A Study on the Effects of
Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Birth Outcomes in Poland.
American Journal of Epidemiology, 147(3): 309-314, 1998.

Rauh VA, Whyatt RM, Garfinkel R, Andrews H, Hoepner L, Reyes A, Diaz D, Camann D,
Perera FP. Developmental effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and
material hardship among inner-city children. Journal of Neurotoxicology and
Teratology, 26(3):373-85, 2004. Abstract | Full-Text (PDF) | PubMed

Rauh VA, Lamb Parker F, Andrews H, Garfinkel R. Community-level effects on school
performance of inner-city Head Start children. Journal of Community Psychology, 31(3): 1-24, 2003.

Rauh V, Chew G, Garfinkel R. Deteriorated housing contributes to high cockroach allergen levels in inner-city households. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110 (suppl.2):323-327, 2002. Abstract | Full | PDF (5pp., 531Kb)

Rauh V, Andrews H, Garfinkel R. The contribution of maternal age to racial disparities in birthweight: a multi-level perspective. American Journal of Public Health, 91(11):1815-1824, November 2001.

Sax SN, Bennett DH, Chillrud SN, Kinney PL, Spengler JD. Differences in source emission rates of volatile organic compounds in inner-city residences of New York City and Los Angeles. Journal of Exposure Anal Environmental Epidemiology, 14(1):S95-109, 2004.

Strunk RC, Ford JG, Taggart VT et al. [including Rauh and 6 other authors]. Reducing
Disparities in Asthma Care: Priorities for Research-National Heart Lung and Blood
Institute Workshop Report. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 109(2):229-37, 2002.

Tonne CC, Whyatt RM, Camann DE, Perera FP, Kinney PL. Predictors of personal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposures among pregnant minority women in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(6):754-9, 2004. Abstract | Full | PDF (6pp., 124Kb)

Wallace R, Wallace, RG. Adaptive chronic infection, structured stress, and medical magic bullets: Do reductionist cures select for holistic diseases? Biosystems, 77:93-108, November, 2004.

Wallace, R. Comorbidity in psychiatric and chronic physical disease: Autocognitive developmental disorders of structured psychosocial stress. Acta Biotheor, 52:71-93, 2004.

Wallace D, Wallace R, Rauh V. Community stress, demoralization and body mass index: evidence for social signal transduction. Social Science and Medicine, 56(12):2467-78, 2003.

Wallace R, Wallace RG. Immune cognition and vaccine strategy: Beyond genomics. Microbes Infect, 4:521-7, April 2002

Wallace R. Adaptation, punctuation and information: A rate-distortion approach to non-cognitive ‘learning plateaus’ in evolutionary process. Acta Biotheor, 50:101-16, 2002

Whyatt RM, Rauh VA, Barr DB, Camann DE, Andrews HF, Garfinkel R, Hoepner LA, Diaz D, Dietrich D, Reyes A, Tang D, Kinney PL, Perera FP. Prenatal insecticide exposures,
birth weight and length among an urban minority cohort. Environmental Health
Perspectives, 112(10):1125-32, 2004. Abstract | Full | PDF (8pp., 144Kb)

Whyatt RM, Barr DB, Camann DE, Kinney, PL, Barr JR, Andrews HF, Hoepner LA, Garfinkel R, Hazi Y, Reyes A, Ramirez J, Cosme Y, Perera FP. Contemporary-use pesticides in personal air samples during pregnancy and blood samples at delivery among urban minority mothers and newborns. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(5):749-56, 2003. Abstract | Full | PDF (8pp., 157Kb)

Whyatt RM, Camann DE, Barr DB, Barr JR, Andrews HF, Kinney PL, Perera FP. Pesticide levels in 48-hour personal air samples during pregnancy and in blood samples at delivery from urban minority mothers and newborns. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Volume IV; Ed. Hal Levin, pp. 877-882, 2002.

Whyatt RM, Camann DE, Kinney PL, Reyes A, Ramirez J, Dietrich J, Diaz D, Holmes D, Perera FP. Residential pesticide use during pregnancy among a cohort of urban minority women. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(5): 507-15, 2002. Abstract | Full-Text (PDF) (8pp., 556Kb)| PubMed

Whyatt RM, Barr DB. Measurement of organophosphate metabolites in postpartum meconium as a potential biomarker of prenatal exposure: A validation study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 109:417-420, 2001. Abstract | Full | PDF (4pp., 83Kb)

Whyatt RM, Jedrychowski W, Hemminki K, Santella RM, Tsai WY, Yong K, Perera FP.
Biomarkers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA damage and cigarette smoke
exposures in paired maternal and newborn blood samples as a measure of differential susceptibility. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 10(6):581-8, 2001.

Whyatt RM, Perera FP, Jedrychowski W, Santella RM, Garte SJ, Bell DA. Association between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adduct levels in maternal and newborn white blood cells and Glutathione S-Transferase P1 and CYP1A1 Polymorphisms. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 9:207-212, 2000.

Papers Published / In-Press (Spin-off Grants)

Choi H, Jedrychowski W, Spengler J, Camann DE, Whyatt RM, Rauh V, DE, Whyatt RM,
Tsai WY, Perera FP. International studies of prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and fetal growth. Published Online, Environmental Health Perspectives, August 3, 2006.

Choi, H., Rauh V, Pac A, Jedrychowski W, Garfinkle R, Tu Y, Perera FP. Prenatal exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risks of small-for gestational age and pre term birth. Requested Submission to Environmental Health Perspectives as mini monograph, June 2006.

Jedrychowski W, Perera FP, Galas A, Flak E, Jacek R, Penar A, Spengler J. Increased burden of respiratory disease in the first six months of life due to prenatal environmental tobacco smoke - Krakow birth cohort study. Early Child Development and Care, in press.

Jedrychowski W, Perera FP, Penar A, Jacek R, Whyatt RM, Spengler JD, Dumyahn TS, Sochacka-Tatara E. Variability of total exposure to PM2.5 related to indoor and outdoor pollution sources. Krakow study in pregnant women. Science of the Total Environment, published online, 2005.

Jedrychowski W, Jankowski J, Flak E, Skarupa A, Mroz E, Sochacka-Tatara E, Lisowska
Miszczyk I, Szpanowska-Wohn, Rauh V, Caldwell K, Jones R, Skolicki Z, Kaim I,
Perera FP. Effects of prenatal exposure to mercury on cognitive and psychomotor
function in one-year-old infants: epidemiologic cohort study in Poland. Annals of
Epidemiology, published online, November 4, 2005.

Jedrychowksi W, Galas A, Pac A, Flak E, Camann D, Rauh VA, Perera FP. Prenatal ambient air exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and the occurrence of respiratory symptoms over the first year of life. European Journal of Epidemiology, 20:775-782, 2005.

Jedrychowski W, Whyatt RM, Perera FP, Flak E, Pabian W, Kaim I, Mroz E. Dose-response relationship between maternal involuntary tobacco smoking and various birth outcomes. Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 10:283-294, 2004.

Jedrychowski W, Bendkowska I, Flak E, Penar A, Jacek R, Kaim I, Spengler JD, Camann D, Perera FP. Estimated risk for altered fetal growth resulting from exposure to fine particles during pregnancy: an epidemiologic prospective cohort study in Poland. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(14):1398-402, October 2004.

Jedrychowski W, Whyatt RM, Camann DE, Bawle UV, Peki K, Spengler JD, Dumyahn TS, Penar A, and Perera FP. Effect of prenatal PAH exposure on birth outcomes and
neurocognitive development in a cohort of newborns in Poland. Study design and
preliminary ambient data. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 16:21-29, 2003.

Jedrychowski W. Environmental respiratory health in Central and Eastern Europe.
Central European Journal of Public Health, 8(1):33-9, 2000.

Landrigan PJ, Lioy PJ, Thurston G, Berkowitz G, Chen LC, Chillrud SN, Gavett SH,
Georgopoulos PG, Geyh AS, Levin S, Perera F, Rappaport SM, Small C; NIEHS World
Trade Center Working Group. Health and environmental consequences of the World Trade Center disaster. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(6):731-9. Review, May 2004.

Mooney LA, Madsen AM, Tang D, Orjuela MA, Tsai WY, Garduno ER, Perera FP. Antioxidant vitamin supplementation reduces benzo[a]pyrene-DNA adducts and potential cancer risk in female smokers. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 14(1):237-42, 2005.

Peki K, Whyatt RM, Jedrychowski W, Camann D, Penar A, Bawle U, Adibi J, Perera FP.
Personal, indoor and outdoor monitoring of exposures to polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons among a cohort of pregnant women from Krakow, Poland. In:
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate:
Volume IV; Ed. Hal Levin, 2002.

Tang D, Li T-y, Liu JJ, Chen Y-h, Qu L, Perera F. PAH-DNA Adducts in Cord Blood and Fetal and Child Development in a Chinese Cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives, in press, 2006.

Williams MK, Barr DB, Camann DE, Cruz LA, Carlton EJ, Borjas M, Reyes A, Evans D,
Kinney PL, Whitehead Jr., RD, Matseoane S, Whyatt RM. An intervention to reduce residential insecticide exposure during pregnancy among an inner-city cohort. Published Online, Environmental Health Perspectives, July 27, 2006.

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