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Maternal blood contamination of collected cord blood can be identified using DNA methylation at three CpGs
25 Jul 2017
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BACKGROUND: Cord blood is a commonly used tissue in environmental, genetic, and epigenetic population studies due to its ready availability and potential to inform on a sensitive period of human development. However, the introduction of maternal blood during labor or cross-contamination during sample collection may complicate downstream analyses. After discovering maternal contamination of cord blood in a cohort...
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