Article
Differential methylation between ethnic sub-groups reflects the effect of genetic ancestry and environmental exposures
2016-01-15
Abstract excerpt
In clinical practice and biomedical research populations are often divided categorically into distinct racial/ethnic groups. In reality, these categories, which are based on social rather than biological constructs, comprise diverse groups with highly heterogeneous histories, cultures, traditions, religions, social and environmental exposures and ancestral backgrounds. Their use is thus widely debated and genetic...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 54a80fc7-2f01-5038-aedb-d5674a5eb755
- DOI
- 10.1101/036822