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Da-Hai Yu1, Robert A Waterland2, Lanlan Shen1
1Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Trends in Genetics : TIG
|December 7, 2014
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