What happens to your genes when you smoke a cigarette?

Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 10:15 in Health & Medicine

The effects of smoking cigarettes on gene activity have been investigated in the largest study of its kind. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medical Genomics studied white blood cells taken from 1,240 people to identify 323 unique genes whose expression levels were significantly correlated with smoking behaviour...

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