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Coffee clearly does something to our DNA

Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad - still too early to say for sure

01-May-2020

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Consuming coffee doesn't change our DNA, but may change how genes express themselves.

Causes methylation of cytosine nucleotide at multiple CpG sites in DNA.

11 CpG sites are significantly associated with coffee consumption.

Needs to explore if these changes in DNA methylation are beneficial or harmful.

A meta-analysis of 15 different studies that involved more than 15,000 participants.

Study by Erasmus University Medical Center in Netherlands, in preprint stage to be peer reviewed.

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Epigenetics, Caffeine