title: Collaboration between centres of the World Health Organization. Italy supports a Mexican university.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mexico is the third most populous country in America. A sizeable percentage of Mexicans live under unfavorable conditions such as malnutrition, marginalization and overcrowding. Environmental injustice includes: indigenous exposed to wood smoke, families living in mining zones, children working and living in garbage dumps and brick factories. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, electronic waste and heavy metals exposure represent a health risk. These pollutants can induce biochemical lesions as DNA damage and epigenetic changes which could modif the gene expression profile of each individual.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this work is to create an Italy-Mexico collaboration (within the context of WHO collaborating centres) between the Center of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Milan and the University of San Luis Potosi, will allow molecular approaches to develop early indicators of susceptibility to adult disease and cancer.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Toxicologia Ambiental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alegria-Torres
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baccarelli
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000107:Acetylation; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019175:DNA Methylation; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007391:International Cooperation; D008745:Methylation; D008800:Mexico; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D035862:Vulnerable Populations; D014944:World Health Organization / Q000458:organization & administration*
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D006657:Histones; D035683:MicroRNAs