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. 2015;7(1):13-5.
doi: 10.2217/epi.14.70.

Candidate gene methylation studies are at high risk of erroneous conclusions

Andrey A Shabalin  1 , Karolina A Aberg, Edwin J C G van den Oord
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Candidate gene methylation studies are at high risk of erroneous conclusions

Andrey A Shabalin et al. Epigenomics. 2015.
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Keywords: DNA methylation; candidate gene study; false discoveries; methylome-wide association study; principal component analysis.

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