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Monica Szabó1,2, Beáta Máté3, Katalin Csép4

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tîrgu Mureș, 38 Gheorghe Marinescu Street, 540139, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania. szabo.monika@umftgm.ro.

Biochemical Genetics
|June 7, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
DNA methylationEpigenetics of type 2 diabetesHistone modification, non-coding RNAsNutritional epigenetic effectsPharamacoepigenetic

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