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Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome: imprinting in clusters revisited
1 Feb 2000
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting, a process that causes genes to be expressed according to their parental origin, affects a minority of human genes, probably less than 1,000. Nevertheless, this class of epigenetic modification acts on many genes with critical roles in growth and development, and disordered imprinting is implicated in genetic disease and in many cancers. Various theories have been proposed to explain the...
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