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Genetic and epigenetic influence on the response to environmental particulate matter.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Jan 2012
Ji Hong, Khurana Hershey Gurjit K
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Ambient air pollution, including particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants, represents important environmental exposures that adversely affect human health. Because of their heritable and reversible nature, epigenetic modifications provide a plausible link between the environment and alterations in gene expression that might lead to disease. Epidemiologic evidence supports that environmental exposures in...
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