EFFECTS OF DRINKING WATER QUALITY ON EPIGENETIC FACTORS: A MOLECULAR–HYGIENIC INVESTIGATION
Keywords:
Drinking Water Quality, Epigenetics, DNA Methylation, Histone Modification, MicroRNAs, Molecular Hygiene, Environmental Exposure, Heavy Metals, Water Contaminants.Abstract
Drinking water quality plays a crucial yet often underestimated role in influencing epigenetic mechanisms that regulate gene expression and determine long-term health outcomes in human populations. As environmental exposures increasingly intersect with molecular biology, a growing body of evidence suggests that contaminants such as heavy metals, disinfection by-products, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, microbial metabolites, and nano-sized particles present in drinking water can induce stable yet reversible epigenetic alterations involving DNA methylation, histone modifications, non-coding RNA dynamics, chromatin remodeling, and transgenerational regulatory changes.
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