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DNA Methylation is Predictive of Mortality in Current and Former Smokers
29 Jan 2020
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Abstract Rationale Smoking results in at least a decade lower life expectancy. Mortality among current smokers is two to three times as high as never smokers. DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification of the human genome that has been associated with both cigarette smoking and mortality. Objectives We sought to identify DNA methylation marks in blood that are predictive of mortality in a subset of the...
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