A Large-Scale Twin Study Aims to Elucidate Common Disease | Genome Technology | Sequencing | GenomeWeb

A large-scale epigenetic study of common diseases in twins, particularly those discordant for a disease, may provide new targets for therapy.
"Identical twins and epigenetics are the ideal partners because we know there's both genetic effects and environmental effects," says Timothy Spector of King's College London. "In non-twin populations, you'd have to do studies that were perhaps 10 to 20 times as large to find the same results."
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