Article
Effects of obesity, and of weight loss following bariatric surgery, on methylation of DNA from the rectal mucosa and in cfDNA from blood
2022-07-25
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism through which environmental factors including obesity influence health. Obesity is a major modifiable risk factor for many common diseases including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Obesity-induced inflammation resulting from aberrantly-methylated inflammatory genes may drive disease risk. This study is the first to investigate t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 54d068b1-448b-550e-9fd7-c32ec1c9f1d5
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1847266/v1
