Epigenetics in health and disease: Heralding the EWAS era

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9933, 2014, Pages 1952-1954

  Murphy, Therese M ^a   Mill, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DISEASES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NOCICEPTION; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; EPIGENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY;

EID: 84901792809     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60269-5     Document Type: Note

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