RNA: A possible contributor to the 'missing heritability'

Basic and Clinical Andrology

Volumn 23, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Grandjean, Valérie ^a   Badro, Danielle A ^a   Kiani, Jafar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Inheritance; Non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892876101     PISSN: 20514190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-4190-23-9     Document Type: Review

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