The Implications of DNA Methylation for Toxicology: Toward Toxicomethylomics, the Toxicology of DNA Methylation

Identifying agents that have long-term deleterious impact on health but exhibit no immediate toxicity is of prime importance.It is well established that long-term toxicity of chemicals could be caused by their ability to generate changes in the DNA sequence through the process of mutagenesis.Several assays including the Ames test and its different modifications were developed to assess the mutagenic potential of chemicals (Ames, B. N.,