Prenatal phthalate exposure associates with low regulatory T-cell numbers and atopic dermatitis in early childhood: Results from the LINA mother-child study - 19/04/17

Gunda Herberth, PhD ^a, ∗

  These authors contributed equally to this work.

, Arkadiusz Pierzchalski, PhD ^b, ∗

  These authors contributed equally to this work.

, Ralph Feltens, PhD ^b, Mario Bauer, PhD ^a, Stefan Röder, PhD ^c, Sven Olek, PhD ^d, Denise Hinz, PhD ^{a, e}, Michael Borte, PhD ^f, Martin von Bergen, PhD ^{b, g, h}, Irina Lehmann, PhD ^a
for the

LINA Study Group

^a Department of Environmental Immunology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 

^b Department of Molecular Systems Biology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 

^c UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Core Facility Studies, Leipzig, Germany 

^d Ivana Tuerbachova Laboratory for Epigenetics, Epiontis GmbH, Berlin, Germany 

^e Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, Calif 

^f Children's Hospital, Municipal Hospital “St Georg,” Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 

^g Institute of Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 

^h Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark