Trapphoff T
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· 3 papers in corpus
· active 2022-2024
Smoking of classic cigarettes has been well-established as a health risk factor, including cardiovascular, neurological, and pulmonary diseases. Adverse effects on human reproduction have also been shown. Smokers are assumed to have a signi…
Expression of the double homeobox 4 (DUX4) transcription factor is highly regulated in early embryogenesis and is subsequently epigenetically silenced. Ectopic expression of DUX4 due to hypomethylation of the D4Z4 repeat array on permissive…
An age-dependent increase in ribosomal DNA (rDNA) methylation has been observed across a broad spectrum of somatic tissues and the male mammalian germline. Bisulfite pyrosequencing (BPS) was used to determine the methylation levels of the r…