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Research Paper

Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity, offspring cord blood DNA methylation, and offspring cardiometabolic health in early childhood: an epigenome-wide association study

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Pages 325-340 | Received 28 Aug 2018, Accepted 28 Jan 2019, Published online: 26 Mar 2019

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