Principles and challenges of genomewide DNA methylation analysis.

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Published in Nat Rev Genet on March 01, 2010

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Peter W Laird1

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1: USC Epigenome Center, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 90089‑9601, USA. plaird@usc.edu

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