Commentary: The seven plagues of epigenetic epidemiology.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on January 23, 2012

Authors

Bastiaan T Heijmans1, Jonathan Mill

Author Affiliations

1: Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Netherlands. bas.heijmans@lumc.nl

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