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Chairman's introduction: What can we expect to learn from genomics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2007

John C. Mathers
John C. Mathers*
Affiliation:
Human Nutrition Research Centre, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon, Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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Corresponding author: Professor John Mathers, fax +44 191 222 8684, email john.mathers@ncl.ac.uk
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Symposium on ‘How and why measure individual variability’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 1 - 4
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