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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Dec 10;23(2):223–233. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0573

Table 1.

Grant portfolio search and coding categories

“HUMAN” AND “NEOPLASM” AND one or more epigenetic terms from column first and one or more epidemiology terms from the second column
EPIGENETICS TERMS	EPIDEMIOLOGY TERMS
Epigenetics	Epidemiology
Methylation	Case control
Epigenome	Cohort
Histone	Epidemiology methods
Acetylation	Observational studies
Imprinting	Risk assessment
MicroRNA	Causal association
Chromatin compaction	Association studies
CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP)	Nested case control studies
	Clinical trial
	Etiology
	Risk factors
	Susceptibility
	Prognosis
	Prevention
	Population-based