A genome-wide methylation study on obesity: Differential variability and differential methylation

Besides differential methylation, DNA methylation variation has recently been proposed and demonstrated to be a potential contributing factor to cancer risk. Here we aim to examine whether differential variability in methylation is also an important feature of obesity, a typical non-malignant common...

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Main Authors: Xu, Xiaojing, Su, Shaoyong, Barnes, Vernon A., De Miguel, Carmen, Pollock, Jennifer, Ownby, Dennis, Shi, Huidong, Zhu, Haidong, Snieder, Harold, Wang, Xiaoling
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Landes Bioscience 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741222/