I find this interesting because gene regulation plays a role in cancer. Typically in health physics one reads about direct or indirect damage to DNA. However, there is no reason that radiation could not also damage epigenetically important molecules causing a gene to "misbehave".
This other study shows how an enzyme (PAD4) which is normally "good" (fights bacteria) can be "bad" (silences tumor suppressor genes, increasing cancer risk).
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