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Efficient arsenic metabolism--the AS3MT haplotype is associated with DNA methylation and expression of multiple genes around AS3MT.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Engström Karin S, Hossain Mohammad Bakhtiar, Lauss Martin, Ahmed Sultan, Raqib Rubhana, Vahter Marie, Broberg Karin
Abstract excerpt
Arsenic is a very potent toxicant. One major susceptibility factor for arsenic-related toxicity is the efficiency of arsenic metabolism. The efficiency, in turn, is associated with non-coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the arsenic methyltransferase AS3MT on chromosome 10q24. However, the mechanism of action for these SNPs is not yet clarified. Here, we assessed the influence of genetic variation in...
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