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

    Funding

    1Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; 2ISPAR; University of Bedfordshire; Bedfordshire, UK; 3MRC Cancer Unit; University of Cambridge; Cambridge, UK; 4Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology; King’s College London; London, UK; 5Department of Cardiovascular Sciences; University of Leicester Glenfield Hospital; Leicester, UK; 6NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit; Glenfield Hospital; Leicester, UK; 7William Harvey Research Institute; Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; Queen Mary University of London; London, UK; 8Department of Human Genetics; McGill University; McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Center; Montreal, Canada; 9Department of Genetic Medicine and Development and Institute for Genetics and Genomics in Geneva; University of Geneva Medical School; Geneva, Switzerland; 10Pierre and Marie Curie University and Medical School; Paris, France; 11Klinik und Poliklinik fu€r Innere Medizin II; Regensburg, Germany; 12Universit€at zu Lu€beck; Institut fu€r Integrative und ExperimentelleGenomik; Lu€beck, Germany; 13German Center for Cardiovascular Research; Munich, Germany; 14Department of Haematology; University of Cambridge and National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant; Cambridge, UK; 15Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD); King Abdulaziz University; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Keywords

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

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