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)

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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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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.

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

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