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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. Samani
  • Panos Deloukas*
*Corresponding author for this work
    • Wellcome Sanger Institute
    • University of Bedfordshire
    • University of Cambridge
    • King's College London
    • University of Leicester
    • Glenfield Hospital
    • Queen Mary University of London
    • McGill University
    • University of Geneva
    • Sorbonne Université
    • Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II
    • University of Lübeck
    • German Centre for Cardiovascular Research
    • NHS Blood and Transplant
    • King Abdulaziz University

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    273 Citations (SciVal)
    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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