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Paternal Tobacco Smoke Correlated to Offspring Asthma and Prenatal Epigenetic Programming
31 May 2019
Abstract excerpt
Rationale: Little is known about effects of paternal tobacco smoke (PTS) on the offspring’s asthma and its prenatal epigenetic programming. Objective: To investigate whether PTS exposure was associated with the offspring’s asthma and correlated to epigenetic CG methylation of potential tobacco-related immune genes: LMO2, GSTM1 or/and IL-10 genes. Measurements and Main Results: In a birth cohort of 1629 newborns,...
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