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Marina Vafeiadi1, Silvia Agramunt, Marie Pedersen

  • 1From the aCentre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain; bMunicipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), Barcelona, Spain; cCIBER Epidemiología y SaludPública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain; dParc de Salut Mar, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Barcelona, Spain; eNational Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Institute Albert Bonniot, Grenoble, France; fBiodetection Systems B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands; gDepartment of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; hCentre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; iBradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, United Kingdom; jSection of Environmental Health, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; kFaculty of Health and Life sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain; lDepartment of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; mDepartment of Chemicals and Radiation, Division of Environmental Medicine, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; nDepartment of Food, Water and Cosmetics, Division of Environmental Medicine, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; oDepartment of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; pInstitute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece; qDepartment of Biosciences and Nutrition, Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden; rEpidemiology, Biostatistics, and Clinical Trials, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST-Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy; sDepartme

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