On 9 February 2022, S.C.E. Maas will defend her PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Epigenetic Regulation and Inference of Lifestyle Factors and Health’.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Wednesday 9 Feb 2022, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Professor Andries Querido room
- Building
- Education Center
- Location
- Erasmus MC
Lifestyle factors are associated with an increased risk of CVD, leading to almost 18 million deaths worldwide each year. Epigenetics is proposed as a possible mechanism in which these lifestyle factors could lead to disease and their risk factors. In this thesis, I used prediction methods to investigate the possibility of DNA methylation-based inference of lifestyle factors, such as cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking, and applied multi-omics approaches to investigate DNA methylation markers and microRNAs in association with health outcomes such as cardio-metabolic traits and bone mineral density.
The PhD defences will not take place publicly in the usual way. A live stream link has been provided to candidate. The ceremony will begin exactly at 13.00.
