author keywords: maternal exposures; imprinted genes; offspring epigenetics; cadmium; CpG methylation; racial epigenetic outcome differences

TL;DR: Data support that prenatal Cd exposure is associated with aberrant methylation of the imprint regulatory element for the MEG3 gene cluster at birth, and neither house-dust nor water are likely exposure sources, and ingestion via contaminated hands is also unlikely to be a significant exposure route in this population. (via Semantic Scholar)