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Published online 1 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/452510a
Drug markers questioned
A recent spate of worrying clinical-trial data has researchers questioning drugs approved on the basis of how they affect biomarkers rather than clinical endpoints. Heidi Ledford looks at surrogate markers.
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