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Research Article

Association of homocysteine with global DNA methylation in vegetarian Indian pregnant women and neonatal birth anthropometrics

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Pages 1749-1753 | Received 07 Oct 2013, Accepted 29 Dec 2013, Published online: 03 Feb 2014

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