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Role of Epigenetics in Biology and Human Diseases
For a long time, scientists have tried to describe disorders just by genetic or environmental factors. However, the role of epigenetics in human diseases has been considered from a half of century ago. In the last decade, this subject has attracted many interests, especially in complicated disorders such as behavior plasticity, memory, cancer, autoimmune disease, and addiction as well as neurod...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Osteoporosis Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1544-1873,1544-2241
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-018-0435-y