BACKGROUND: Benzene is an established leukemogen at high exposure levels. Although low-level benzene exposure is widespread and may induce oxidative damage, no mechanistic biomarkers are available to detect biological dysfunction at low doses.
OBJECTIVES: Our goals were to determine in a large multicenter cross-sectional study whether low-level benzene is associated with increased blood mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn, a biological oxidative response to mitochondrial DNA damage and dysfunction) and to explore potential links between mtDNAcn and leukemia-related epigenetic markers.
METHODS: We measured blood relative mtDNAcn by real-time polymerase chain reaction in 341 individuals selected from various occupational groups with low-level benzene exposures (> 100 times lower than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration/European Union standards) and 178 referents from three Italian cities (Genoa, Milan, Cagliari).
RESULTS: In each city, benzene-exposed participants showed higher mtDNAcn than referents: mtDNAcn was 0.90 relative units in Genoa bus drivers and 0.75 in referents (p = 0.019); 0.90 in Milan gas station attendants, 1.10 in police officers, and 0.75 in referents (p-trend = 0.008); 1.63 in Cagliari petrochemical plant workers, 1.25 in referents close to the plant, and 0.90 in referents farther from the plant (p-trend = 0.046). Using covariate-adjusted regression models, we estimated that an interquartile range increase in personal airborne benzene was associated with percent increases in mtDNAcn equal to 10.5% in Genoa (p = 0.014), 8.2% (p = 0.008) in Milan, 7.5% in Cagliari (p = 0.22), and 10.3% in all cities combined (p < 0.001). Using methylation data available for the Milan participants, we found that mtDNAcn was associated with LINE-1 hypomethylation (-2.41%; p = 0.007) and p15 hypermethylation (+15.95%, p = 0.008).
CONCLUSIONS: Blood MtDNAcn was increased in persons exposed to low benzene levels, potentially reflecting mitochondrial DNA damage and dysfunction.

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━ ━ 1,3-butadiene
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━ ━ 4-Aminobiphenyl
━ ━ ━ Human
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ Aflatoxins
━ ━ ━ Human
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ lncRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Mouse
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ Rat
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Other
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ Benzene
━ ━ ━ Human
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ lncRNA
━ ━ ━ Mouse
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Rat
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ Benzidine
━ ━ ━ Mouse
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ Benzo[a]pyrene
━ ━ ━ Human
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ lncRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Mouse
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ lncRNA
━ ━ ━ Rat
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Other
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ Coke production
━ ━ ━ Human
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
━ ━ Formaldehyde
━ ━ ━ Human
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Mouse
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Rat
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Other
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ MOCA
━ ━ ━ Rat
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ Histone modification
━ ━ Occupational exposure as a painter
━ ━ ━ Human
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━ ━ Sulfur Mustard
━ ━ ━ Human
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━ ━ ━ ━ ━ microRNA
━ ━ ━ Mouse
━ ━ ━ ━ in vitro
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━ ━ Vinyl chloride
━ ━ ━ Human
━ ━ ━ ━ in vivo
━ ━ ━ ━ ━ DNA methylation
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━ ━ no epigenetics
━ ━ ━ y-H2AX
━ ━ ━ histone-carcinogen binding
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━ ━ other
━ ━ ━ carcinogen binding to (existant) methylated cytosines
━ ━ ━ caricinogen binding and (existant) chromatin structure

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