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Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body
Tao Ding & Patrick D. Schloss Nature (2014) April 16

Harvard personal genome project: lessons from participatory public research 
Ball MP, et al. Genome Med 2014;6(2):10

Heritability and genomics of gene expression in peripheral blood. 
Fred A Wright et al. Nature Genetics, March 14, 2014

Metabolomics in nutritional epidemiology: identifying metabolites associated with diet and quantifying their potential to uncover diet-disease relations in populations.
Kristin A Guertin, et al. Am J Clin Nutrition, April 2014 

Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor-γ-co-activator-1α promoter methylation in blood at 5–7 years predicts adiposity from 9 to 14 years (EarlyBird 50)
Clarke-Harris R, et al. Diabetes. 2014 Mar 12.

Epigenetic changes in childhood predict risk of obesity, Medscape, Apr 10 [by free subscription only]

Return of results in the genomic medicine projects of the eMERGE network 
Kullo IJ, et al. Front Genet 2014;5:50

Severe osteoarthritis of the hand associates with common variants within the ALDH1A2 gene and with rare variants at 1p31. 
Unnur Styrkarsdottir et al. Nature Genetics, April 13, 2014

Sex modifies the APOE-related risk of developing Alzheimer disease.
Altmann A, et al. Ann Neurol. 2014 Mar 13.

Gene variant gives women higher risk for Alzheimer's, Medical News Today, Apr 15