Environmental Health

Table 2 Associations between arsenic exposure and cell type proportion estimates

From: Exposure to arsenic at different life-stages and DNA methylation meta-analysis in buccal cells and leukocytes

	Chile study, PBMCs (N = 40)		Bangladesh study, 450 K (N = 48)		Bangladesh study, 850 K (N = 32)
	B^a	p	B^a	p	B^a	p
CD8+ T cells	−0.03	0.18	0.05	0.018	0.02	0.28
CD4+ T cells	−0.02	0.54	0.00	0.93	0.01	0.66
NK	0.01	0.89	0.01	0.75	−0.06	0.14
B cells	0.03	0.11	0.02	0.16	0.02	0.42
Monocytes	0.01	0.58	−0.05	0.003	− 0.01	0.73
Granulocytes	0.00	0.89	−0.03	0.12	0.01	0.45

^a Linear models predicting Housman estimated cell type proportions and adjusted by age, smoking status (ever smoker) and sex (in Chile study)

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