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Changes in DNA methylation at the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor may be a new biomarker for smoking
11 Oct 2013
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BACKGROUND: Smoking is the largest preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. In previous work, we demonstrated that altered DNA methylation at the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor (AHRR) is correlated with self-reported smoking in 19-year-old African Americans with relatively low levels of smoking. However, one limitation of the prior work is that it was based on self-reported data...
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