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Sunday, October 02, 2016

Smoking

Smoking leaves ‘footprint’ in DNA

Findings could provide researchers with potential targets for new therapies
September 25, 2016
Extinguishing a cigarette (credit: American Heart Association)
Smoking leaves its “footprint” on the human genome in the form ofDNA methylation, a process that affects what genes are turned on, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, an American Heart Association journal.
The new findings could provide researchers with potential targets for new therapies.
“These results are important because methylation, as one of the mechanisms of the regulation of gene expression, affects… read more

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