Epigenome-wide association study in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer And Nutrition (EPIC-Turin) identifies novel genetic loci associated with smoking

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 843-851

  Shenker, Natalie S ^a   Polidoro, Silvia ^b   van Veldhoven, Karin ^a,b   Sacerdote, Carlotta ^b   Ricceri, Fulvio ^b   Birrell, Mark A ^c   Belvisi, Maria G ^c   Brown, Robert ^a   Vineis, Paolo ^a,b   Flanagan, James M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HuGeF Foundation   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DISEASE COURSE; DNA METHYLATION; EFFECT SIZE; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REPRESSOR GENE; SAMPLING; SMOKING;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RECEPTORS, THROMBIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SMOKING;

EID: 84873476594     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds488     Document Type: Article

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