UK, China Research Teams Partner on $31M Epigenetics Study

Sep 07, 2010

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Research teams in the UK and China have launched a new £20 million ($30.7 million) partnership to study epigenetic factors in thousands of pairs of twins in order to learn why many identical twins do not develop the same diseases as one another, King's College London said today.

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