Epigenetic epidemiology: Is there cause for optimism?

Epigenomics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 683-685

  Ramsay, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

complex traits; DNA methylation; epigenetic epidemiology; epigenetics; EWAS; noncommunicable diseases

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; PYRIMIDINE DIMER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEEK CELL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; OPTIMISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TOBACCO; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 84945175527     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.15.48     Document Type: Review

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