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Neuronal Insult Either By Exposure To Lead Or By Direct Neuronal Damage Cause Genome-Wide Changes In Dna Methylation And Histone 3 Lysine 36 Trimethylation, Arko Sen
Wayne State University Dissertations
Prenatal and postnatal exposure to pervasive neuro-toxicants such as Lead (Pb) has been reported to causes extensive and diverse changes in the epigenetic profile. Among epigenetic modification, DNA methylation (5mC) is perhaps the most widely studied and has been proposed to be potential early biomarkers for Pb toxicity. Several studies have demonstrated the association between Pb-exposure and 5mC. However most of these studies are restricted to looking at a specific set of target genes or repetitive elements. Therefore, one of the main objectives of our study was to use an unbiased genome-wide approach to look at Pb-exposure associated changes in …