Active and secondhand smoke exposure throughout life and DNA methylation in breast tumors.

Catherine L CallahanMatthew R BonnerJing NieYoujin WangMeng-Hua TaoPeter G ShieldsCatalin MarianKevin H EngMaurizio TrevisanJo L Freudenheim

Published in: Cancer causes & control : CCC (2019)

Exposure to tobacco smoke may contribute to breast carcinogenesis via alterations in DNA methylation. Further studies in a larger panel of genes are warranted.

Keyphrases

dna methylation
genome wide
gene expression
case control
genome wide identification