Section Editor: Steven Gray
Associate Editor: Andres Cardenas, Boris Novakovic
The epigenome plays critical roles in determining phenotype and extracellular events within an individual’s environment (pollutants, stress) have been shown to significantly affect the epigenome with wide-ranging implications for health and disease.
This section publishes high-quality and innovative research generated from basic science, animal and translational clinical studies that focus on how environmental exposures can affect epigenetic regulation in the induction or control of disease. Research on the application of epigenetic analyses to the prediction, diagnosis, and effects of environmental exposure to pollutants on all aspects of human health are particularly welcomed. These may include reports on the interface between environmental exposures and epigenetic changes important to long-term human health and disease. Laboratory studies that report on potentially new environmental impacts on the epigenome (for example nanoparticles) will also be considered.