epigenotoxic

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adjective

Capable of causing damage to the way by DNA sequences are activated or deactivated, leading to cancer.

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Meanings

adjectiveepigenotoxic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineCapable of causing damage to the way by DNA sequences are activated or deactivated, leading to cancer.

    1,3-Butadiene is a common carcinogenic environmental contaminant and is considered an epigenotoxic agent (i.e., it affects DNA and histone methylation).

    2015, Trygve Tollefsbol, Personalized Epigenetics, →ISBN, page 256
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    BD is also an epigenotoxic agent. BD-induced genotoxic and epigenotoxic events have been shown to be due to interstrain differences (Koturbashet al.,2011).

    2012, Saura C. Sahu, Toxicology and Epigenetics, →ISBN

Origin

From epi- + genotoxic.

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