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SUBMITTER: Byun HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4356890 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Byun Hyang-Min HM Barrow Timothy M TM
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 20150101
There is increasing evidence that exposure to air pollutants is associated with human disease and may act through epigenetic modification of the nuclear genome, but there have been few publications describing their impact upon the mitochondrial genome. Mitochondrial DNA may be more susceptible to pollutant-induced changes via increased oxidative stress in the cell, and therefore this field of research is of growing interest. Many techniques employed to study DNA methylation of the nuclear genome ...[more]