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Epigenomics and allergic disease.
Epigenomics - 1 Dec 2013
Lockett Gabrielle A, Patil Veeresh K, Soto-Ramírez Nelís, Ziyab Ali H, Holloway John W, Karmaus Wilfried
Abstract excerpt
Allergic disease development is affected by both genes and the environment, and epigenetic mechanisms are hypothesized to mediate these environmental effects. In this article, we discuss the link between the environment, DNA methylation and allergic disease, as well as questions of causality inherent to analyses of DNA methylation. From the practical side, we describe characteristics of allergic phenotypes and...
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