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Epigenetic epidemiology: promises for public health research.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Apr 2014
Bakulski Kelly M, Fallin M Daniele
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Epigenetic changes underlie developmental and age related biology. Promising epidemiologic research implicates epigenetics in disease risk and progression, and suggests epigenetic status depends on environmental risks as well as genetic predisposition. Epigenetics may represent a mechanistic link between environmental exposures, or genetics, and many common diseases, or may simply provide a quantitative biomarker...
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