Article
Epigenome-wide association study of smoking and DNA methylation in non-small cell lung neoplasms.
Oncotarget - 25 Oct 2016
Freeman Joshua R, Chu Su, Hsu Thomas, Huang Yen-Tsung
Abstract excerpt
Tobacco smoke is a well-established lung cancer carcinogen. We hypothesize that epigenetic processes underlie carcinogenesis. The objective of this study is to examine the effects of smoke exposure on DNA methylation to search for novel susceptibility loci. We obtained epigenome-wide DNA methylation data from lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell (LUSC) tissues in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
