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Research Article

Enlarged Leukocyte Referent Libraries can Explain Additional Variance in Blood-Based Epigenome-Wide Association Studies

Stephanie Kim1 Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI02912, USA;2 Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA02118, USAView further author information
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Melissa Eliot1 Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI02912, USAView further author information
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Devin C Koestler3 Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KA66160, USAView further author information
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Eugene A Houseman4 Oregon State University College of Public Health & Human Sciences, Corvallis, OR97331, USAView further author information
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James G Wetmur5 Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY10029, USAView further author information
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John K Wiencke6 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USAView further author information
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Karl T Kelsey1 Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI02912, USA;7 Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1185-1192 | Received 06 Apr 2016, Accepted 21 Jun 2016, Published online: 16 Aug 2016

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