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Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Genomic DNA Methylation in a Multiethnic Birth Cohort
1 Dec 2011
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BACKGROUND: Exposure to prenatal tobacco smoke (PTS) has been associated with a number of health outcomes in the offspring, including some childhood cancers. Lower levels of genomic DNA methylation have also been associated with several types of cancers. We investigated whether PTS was associated with global DNA methylation levels in the offspring. METHODS: Our sample was drawn from a birth cohort of women born...
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