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Tackling the epigenome: challenges and opportunities for collaboration

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What are the key considerations to take into account when large-scale epigenomics projects are being implemented?

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Figure 1: The growth of grants related to epigenetics at the NIH.

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We thank members of the Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium and Workgroup as well as the Interim Steering Committee of the International Human Epigenome Consortium for their input.

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  1. John S. Satterlee is at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,

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  2. Dirk Schübeler is at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.,

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  3. Huck-Hui Ng is at the Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,

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