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Cigarette smoking induces small airway epithelial epigenetic changes with corresponding modulation of gene expression.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Dec 2013
Buro-Auriemma Lauren J, Salit Jacqueline, Hackett Neil R, Walters Matthew S, Strulovici-Barel Yael, Staudt Michelle R, Fuller Jennifer, Mahmoud Mai, Stevenson Christopher S, Hilton Holly, Ho Melisa W Y, Crystal Ronald G
Abstract excerpt
The small airway epithelium (SAE), the first site of smoking-induced lung pathology, exhibits genome-wide changes in gene expression in response to cigarette smoking. Based on the increasing evidence that the epigenome can respond to external stimuli in a rapid manner, we assessed the SAE of smokers for genome-wide DNA methylation changes compared with nonsmokers, and whether changes in SAE DNA methylation were...
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