Quantifying the role of transcript levels in mediating DNA methylation effects on complex traits and diseases.

Nat Commun · 2022 · PMC9729239 · PMID 36477627

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These observations are in line with previous studies that only showed a slight trend for negative methylation-gene expression correlations 36 – 39 .

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