Cigarette smoking and DNA methylation

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Ken W K ^a   Pausova, Zdenka ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Epigenome; Prenatal exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883499033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00132     Document Type: Review

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