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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Robert Philibert
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-53045 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
BMC genomics 20140222
<h4>Background</h4>Regular smoking is associated with a wide variety of syndromes with prominent inflammatory components such as cancer, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Heavy regular smoking is also associated with changes in the DNA methylation of peripheral mononuclear cells. However, in younger smokers, inflammatory epigenetic findings are largely absent which suggests the inflammatory response(s) to smoking may be dose dependent. To help understand whether peripheral mononuclear cells have a ro ...[more]