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Specific DNA modifications are linked to certain conditions including breast cancer, type II diabetes and COPD in an epigenetic study of over 18,000 people in Scotland

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Specific DNA modifications are linked to certain conditions including breast cancer, type II diabetes and COPD in an epigenetic study of over 18,000 people in Scotland

image: Robert Hillary and colleagues investigate whether patterns of DNA methylation in blood associate with the presence of 19 common disease states using the population-based cohort study Generation Scotland. view more 

Credit: Connor Warnock, IGC, University of Edinburgh (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004247

Article Title: Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals

Author Countries: United Kingdom

Funding: see manuscript

Journal

PLoS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004247

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Competing Interests: see manuscript

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