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SUBMITTER: Guarrera S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4690365 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinical epigenetics 20151224
<h4>Background</h4>DNA methylation profiles are responsive to environmental stimuli and metabolic shifts. This makes DNA methylation a potential biomarker of environmental-related and lifestyle-driven diseases of adulthood. Therefore, we investigated if white blood cells' (WBCs) DNA methylation profiles are associated with myocardial infarction (MI) occurrence. Whole-genome DNA methylation was investigated by microarray analysis in 292 MI cases and 292 matched controls from the large prospective ...[more]