%0 Journal Article %T DNA Methylation as a Biomarker for Cardiovascular Disease Risk %A Myungjin Kim %A Tiffany I. Long %A Kazuko Arakawa %A Renwei Wang %A Mimi C. Yu %A Peter W. Laird %J PLOS ONE %D 2012 %I Public Library of Science (PLoS) %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0009692 %X Elevated serum homocysteine is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This may reflect a reduced systemic remethylation capacity, which would be expected to cause decreased genomic DNA methylation in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL). %U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009692