Constitutional epimutation as a mechanism for cancer causality and heritability?

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature Reviews. Cancer

• Publication date

  2015-09-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/nrc4001PMID 26383139
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