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Homocysteine: a role in fetal programming?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2008

Graham C. Burdge
Graham C. Burdge*
Affiliation:
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Research Division, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Southampton, Bassett Crescent East, Southampton SO16 7PX, UK
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Fax +44 2380 594379, g.c.burdge@soton.ac.uk
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 415 - 417
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2006

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