The improvement in lipid metabolism and immune function was further confirmed in companion publications by the same research group, which showed connections between global DNA methylation and its effect on proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR) (Osorio et al., 2016)
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If the material is not referenced consistently in each of these contexts, a laboratory can lose the ability to confirm that two experimental runs used the same reference input under the same baseline assumptions