Tracing ancestry with methylation patterns: most crypts appear distantly related in normal adult human colon

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ability to discern ancestral relationships between individual human colon crypts is limited. Widely separated crypts likely trace their common ancestors to a time around birth, but closely spaced adult crypts may share more recen...

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Main Authors: Shibata Darryl, Kim Kyoung-Mee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2004-04-01
Series:BMC Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/4/8

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