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Tobacco-smoking-related differential DNA methylation: 27K discovery and replication.
American journal of human genetics - 8 Apr 2011
Breitling Lutz P, Yang Rongxi, Korn Bernhard, Burwinkel Barbara, Brenner Hermann
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Tobacco smoking is responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide, in particular through cardiovascular, pulmonary, and malignant pathology. CpG methylation might plausibly play a role in a variety of smoking-related phenomena, as suggested by candidate gene promoter or global methylation studies. Arrays allowing hypothesis-free searches on a scale resembling genome-wide studies of SNPs have become...
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