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Association between DNA methylation in cord blood and maternal smoking: The Hokkaido Study on Environment and Children’s Health
29 Mar 2018
Abstract excerpt
Maternal smoking is reported to cause adverse effects on the health of the unborn child, the underlying mechanism for which is thought to involve alterations in DNA methylation. We examined the effects of maternal smoking on DNA methylation in cord blood, in 247 mother-infant pairs in the Sapporo cohort of the Hokkaido Study, using the Infinium HumanMethylation 450K BeadChip. We first identified differentially...
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