Cigarette smoking reduces DNA methylation levels at multiple genomic loci but the effect is partially reversible upon cessation

Loukia G. Tsaprouni, Tsun Po Yang, Jordana Bell, Katherine J. Dick, Stavroula Kanoni, James Nisbet, Ana Viñuela, Elin Grundberg, Christopher P. Nelson, Eshwar Meduri, Alfonso Buil, Francois Cambien, Christian Hengstenberg, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert, Alison H. Goodall, Willem H. Ouwehand, Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Tim D. Spector, Nilesh J. SamaniPanos Deloukas*

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    253 Citations (SciVal)
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1382-1396
    Number of pages15
    JournalEpigenetics
    Volume9
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 2014

    Keywords

    • CHRND
    • CPOX
    • DNA methylation
    • Epigenome-wide screen
    • Gene network
    • Smoking
    • metQTLs
    • rs2697768

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