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Role of DNA methylation in cardiovascular diseases.
Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) - 1 Jan 2016
Zhang Ye, Zeng Chunyu
Abstract excerpt
A complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors is involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Environmental factors have crucial effects on the epigenetic trait of genes, which refers to a stably heritable phenotype resulting from changes in the chromosomes without alteration of the DNA sequence, but has profound effects on the cellular repertoire. Among the epigenetic patterns,...
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