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. 2010 Oct;28(10):1026-8.
doi: 10.1038/nbt1010-1026.

Taking the measure of the methylome

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Taking the measure of the methylome

Stephan Beck. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Oct.

Abstract

Two comparative studies from the International Human Epigenome Project find high concordance between different methods for measuring genomic methylation.

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