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SUBMITTER: Arpon A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385280 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arpón Ana A Milagro Fermín I FI Ramos-Lopez Omar O Mansego M Luisa ML Santos José Luis JL Riezu-Boj José-Ignacio JI Martínez J Alfredo JA
Scientific reports 20190221 1
Insulin resistance (IR) is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiometabolic risk. An epigenetic phenomena such as DNA methylation might be involved in the onset and development of systemic IR. The aim of this study was to explore the genetic DNA methylation levels in peripheral white blood cells with the objective of identifying epigenetic signatures associated with IR measured by the Homeostatic Model Assessment of IR (HOMA-IR) following an epigenome-wide association study ...[more]