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The hunt for the epiallele.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Jan 2011
Finer Sarah, Holland Michelle L, Nanty Lisa, Rakyan Vardhman K
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Understanding the origin of phenotypic variation remains one of the principle challenges of contemporary biology. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified association between common genetic variants and complex phenotype; however, the minimal effect sizes observed in such studies highlight the potential for other causal factors to be involved in phenotypic variation. The epigenetic state of an...
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