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Research Paper

Associations between placental CpG methylation of metastable epialleles and childhood body mass index across ages one, two and ten in the Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns (ELGAN) cohort

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Pages 1102-1111 | Received 30 Mar 2019, Accepted 13 Jun 2019, Published online: 02 Jul 2019

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