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Environmental Deflection: The Impact of Toxicant Exposures on the Aging Epigenome.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Apr 2017
Kochmanski Joseph, Montrose Luke, Goodrich Jaclyn M, Dolinoy Dana C
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Epigenetic drift and age-related methylation have both been used in the literature to describe changes in DNA methylation that occurs with aging. However, ambiguity remains regarding the exact definition of both of these terms, and neither of these fields of study explicitly considers the impact of environmental factors on the aging epigenome. Recent twin studies have demonstrated longitudinal, pair-specific...
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