Advances on the research of the environmental risk factors of children autism / 中华预防医学杂志

Autism spectrum disorder is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by social interaction and communication impairments, accompanied by repetitive behaviors. Little is known about the causes and contributing factors for autism. It is difficult to prevent and cure, and has become a globe public health problem. With the development in the prevalence of autism, the idea how the environmental factors cause the autism, gains all attentions. Summarizing latest epidemiological studies and experimental evidence, this review is focused on the effect of environmental factors, including air pollutant, heavy metal and pesticides, and discussed the relation between environmental risk factors and autism. The results showed that risks of autism in children may increase following in prenatal exposure to air pollutants, heavy metal and pesticides. It is needed to do the research on the mechanism of environmental risk factor and autism for more prevention, treatment and control suggestions.

Relationship between Line 1 methylation and clinical data of non-small cell lung cancer / 中华医学遗传学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the impact of Line-1 methylation on clinical features of non-small cell lung cancer and its connection with smoking and other living habits.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Pyrosequencing was used to determine the extent of Line-1 methylation in cancer and adjacent tissues derived from 197 patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer. Non-conditional logistic regression analysis was performed to correlate the level of Line-1 methylation with clinical features and living habits of the patients.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Line-1 methylation for cancer tissue and adjacent tissue has measured 68.20±11.63 and 78.90±2.09, respectively (P < 0.01), and has been associated with TNM staging, smoking history and histopathological types.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Lung cancer tissue Line-1 methylation level is closely related with clinical features and smoking. There is also a correlation between histopathological types of lung cancer and relative hypomethylation of Line-1.</p>

Diagnostic value of methylation of p16 genes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer / 中国综合临床

Objective To detect methylation of p16 gene in lung cancer tissues of non-small cell lung cancer patients,and to approach its clinical diagnostic value.Methods The methylation of p16 gene in DNA from 47 non-small cell lung cancer tissues and corresponding nomalignant tissues were tested with methylation-specific PCR(MSP).Results The total frequency of p16 methylation was significantly higher in lung cancer tissues than that in the corresponding malignant tissue(44.7%vs 17%)(P＜0.01).But there was no significant difference in detectiveness,clinical staging,clinical pathology type and clinical classification(P＞0.05).Conclusion The detection of methylation of p16 gene may be helpful to clinical diagnosis for non-small cell lung cancer,but its specify,sensitivity and feasibility need to be further studied.

Advances in Research on Pesticide Pollution to the Aquatic Environment and Health Impact in China / 环境与健康杂志

Pesticide played an important role in agriculture. With the increase of pesticides in recent years,they have easily gone into the aquatic environment through some ways such as rain or surface water. The residual pesticide in the water may destroy the aquatic ecosystems,do harm to the aquatic organisms and human health,now more and more attention has been paid to the situation of the pesticide pollution in the aquatic environment. This present paper introduced the type of common pesticide residues in the water in China, it also described the pesticide pollution situation in rivers,groundwater,marine and other water as well as the potential impact of pesticide on the aquatic organisms and human health,in order to provide a basis for China to carry out relative research.

Analysis of the familial risk factors on lung cancer / 中国肺癌杂志

<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>To study the familial risk factors on lung cancer and the effect of genetic factors on lung cancer.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>With methods of genetic epidemiology, 370 probands of lung cancer and 370 spouses of the probands (control) were studied.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The risk of the probands' relatives was 1.85 times higher than that of their spouses' relatives (P < 0.01). Compared with the spouses' parents and female relatives, the OR of the probands' parents and female relatives was 2.66 and 2.64 (P < 0.01), respectively. Compard with the female controls' parents, the OR of female probands' parents was 2.27 (P < 0.01).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The susceptibility of the probands' relatives with lung cancer is higher than that of their spouses' relatives. The genetic factor is one of risk factors on lung cancer.</p>