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epigenotoxic en · ADJ

Etymology

From epi- + genotoxic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable 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:
    • 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: