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Methodological Issues in Population-Based Studies of Multigenerational Associations

Three generations of women
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Laboratory-based animal research has revealed a number of exposures with multigenerational effects—ones that affect the children and grandchildren of those directly exposed. An important task for epidemiology is to investigate these relationships in human populations.