@article {Gao2017,
	title = {The impact of methylation quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) on active smoking-related DNA methylation changes},
	journal = {Clin Epigenetics},
	volume = {9},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {Gao, Xu Thomsen, Hauke Zhang, Yan Breitling, Lutz Philipp Brenner, Hermann eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov\&$\#$039;t Germany Clin Epigenetics. 2017 Aug 17;9:87. doi: 10.1186/s13148-017-0387-6. eCollection 2017.},
	pages = {87},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {{BACKGROUND: Methylation quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) are the genetic variants that may affect the DNA methylation patterns of CpG sites. However, their roles in influencing the disturbances of smoking-related epigenetic changes have not been well established. This study was conducted to address whether mQTLs exist in the vicinity of smoking-related CpG sites (+/- 50 kb) and to examine their associations with smoking exposure and all-cause mortality in older adults. RESULTS: We obtained DNA methylation profiles in whole blood samples by Illumina Infinium Human Methylation 450 BeadChip array of two independent subsamples of the ESTHER study (discovery set},
	keywords = {Aged CpG Islands *DNA Methylation Epigenesis, DNA Smoking/*genetics *Active smoking *Epigenetic epidemiology *Methylation quantitative trait loci, Genetic Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Humans Male Middle Aged *Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide *Quantitative Trait Loci Sequence Analysis},
	issn = {1868-7083 (Electronic) 1868-7075 (Linking)},
	doi = {10.1186/s13148-017-0387-6},
	url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28824732},
	author = {Gao, X. and Thomsen, H. and Y. Zhang and Breitling, L. P. and Brenner, H.}
}
