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Comment
. 2022 Mar 8:11:e77539.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.77539.

The extraordinary metabolism of vitamin D

Carol L Wagner  1   2 , Bruce W Hollis  1   2
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The extraordinary metabolism of vitamin D

Carol L Wagner et al. Elife. .

Abstract

The placenta plays an important role in how vitamin D is metabolized and supplied to the fetus.

Keywords: Vitamin D; developmental biology; epigenetics; fetal programming; human; placenta; transcriptomics.

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Conflict of interest statement

CW, BH No competing interests declared

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