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Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing for Assessment of DNA Methylation at Base Pair Resolution
Published on: February 24, 2015
Validation of DNA methylation patterns: potential biomarker for heritable risk of preeclampsia
Michelle L Wright1, Cindy M Anderson, Eric O Uthus
1College of Nursing, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA.
Western Journal of Nursing Research
|July 21, 2012
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