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Profiling of childhood adversity-associated DNA methylation changes in alcoholic patients and healthy controls.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Zhang Huiping, Wang Fan, Kranzler Henry R, Zhao Hongyu, Gelernter Joel
Abstract excerpt
The increased vulnerability to alcohol dependence (AD) seen in individuals with childhood adversity (CA) may result in part from CA-induced epigenetic changes. To examine CA-associated DNA methylation changes in AD patients, we examined peripheral blood DNA methylation levels of 384 CpGs in promoter regions of 82 candidate genes in 279 African Americans [AAs; 88 with CA (70.5% with AD) and 191 without CA (38.2%...
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