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Epigenetics in Asthma and Other Inflammatory Lung Diseases
1 Aug 2010
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. The causes of asthma and other inflammatory lung diseases are thought to be both environmental and heritable. Genetic studies do not adequately explain the heritability and susceptabilty to the disease, and recent evidence suggests that epigentic changes may underlie these processes. Epigenetics are heritable noncoding changes to DNA and can be influenced...
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