New study shows how genes control blood proteins important to health

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CITATION: Melzer D, Perry JRB, Hernandez D, Corsi A-M, Stevens K, et al. (2008) A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Protein Quantitative Trait Loci (pQTLs). PLoS Genet 4(5): e1000072. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000072

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