Inter-individual Variability in the Improvement of Physiological Risk Factors for Disease: Gene Polymorphisms or Simply Regression to the Mean?

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Journal J Physiol

Specialty Physiology

Date 2010 Mar 17

PMID 20231148

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Authors

Greg Atkinson

Chloe E Taylor

Helen Jones

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