Response to Li and Hopper.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC8008475 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
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Response to Li and Hopper.
Thomas Minta M Sakoda Lori C LC Hoffmeister Michael M Rosenthal Elisabeth A EA Lee Jeffrey K JK van Duijnhoven Franzel J B FJB Platz Elizabeth A EA Wu Anna H AH Dampier Christopher H CH de la Chapelle Albert A Wolk Alicja A Joshi Amit D AD Burnett-Hartman Andrea A Gsur Andrea A Lindblom Annika A Castells Antoni A Win Aung Ko AK Namjou Bahram B Van Guelpen Bethany B Tangen Catherine M CM He Qianchuan Q Li Christopher I CI Schafmayer Clemens C Joshu Corinne E CE Ulrich Cornelia M CM Bishop D Timothy DT Buchanan Daniel D DD Schaid Daniel D Drew David A DA Muller David C DC Duggan David D Crosslin David R DR Albanes Demetrius D Giovannucci Edward L EL Larson Eric E Qu Flora F Mentch Frank F Giles Graham G GG Hakonarson Hakon H Hampel Heather H Stanaway Ian B IB Figueiredo Jane C JC Huyghe Jeroen R JR Minnier Jessica J Chang-Claude Jenny J Hampe Jochen J Harley John B JB Visvanathan Kala K Curtis Keith R KR Offit Kenneth K Li Li L Le Marchand Loic L Vodickova Ludmila L Gunter Marc J MJ Jenkins Mark A MA Slattery Martha L ML Lemire Mathieu M Woods Michael O MO Song Mingyang M Murphy Neil N Lindor Noralane M NM Dikilitas Ozan O Pharoah Paul D P PDP Campbell Peter T PT Newcomb Polly A PA Milne Roger L RL MacInnis Robert J RJ Castellví-Bel Sergi S Ogino Shuji S Berndt Sonja I SI Bézieau Stéphane S Thibodeau Stephen N SN Gallinger Steven J SJ Zaidi Syed H SH Harrison Tabitha A TA Keku Temitope O TO Hudson Thomas J TJ Vymetalkova Veronika V Moreno Victor V Martín Vicente V Arndt Volker V Wei Wei-Qi WQ Chung Wendy W Su Yu-Ru YR Hayes Richard B RB White Emily E Vodicka Pavel P Casey Graham G Gruber Stephen B SB Schoen Robert E RE Chan Andrew T AT Potter John D JD Brenner Hermann H Jarvik Gail P GP Corley Douglas A DA Peters Ulrike U Hsu Li L
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