Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure is associated with childhood DNA CpG methylation.

Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure is associated with childhood DNA CpG methylation.

Smoking while pregnant is associated with a myriad of negative health outcomes in the child. Some of the detrimental effects may be due to epigenetic modifications, although few studies have investigated this hypothesis in detail.To characterize site-specific epigenetic modifications conferred by pr...

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Main Authors: Carrie V Breton, Kimberly D Siegmund, Bonnie R Joubert, Xinhui Wang, Weiliang Qui, Vincent Carey, Wenche Nystad, Siri E Håberg, Carole Ober, Dan Nicolae, Kathleen C Barnes, Fernando Martinez, Andy Liu, Robert Lemanske, Robert Strunk, Scott Weiss, Stephanie London, Frank Gilliland, Benjamin Raby, Asthma BRIDGE consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4070909?pdf=render

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