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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Mol Mutagen. 2019 Jun 20;61(1):176–192. doi: 10.1002/em.22311

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3.

Conceptual diagram for environmental epigenomics studies. Environmental epigenomics studies utilize surrogate tissues as proxies for epigenetic changes in target tissues and determine whether these changes correlate with disease. Several types of epigenetic changes may represent biomarkers of environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes.