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Symmetric and asymmetric DNA methylation in the human IGF2-H19 imprinted region.
Genomics - 1 Mar 2000
Vu T H, Li T, Nguyen D, Nguyen B T, Yao X M, Hu J F, Hoffman A R
Abstract excerpt
The two contiguous IGF2 (human insulin-like growth factor II) and H19 genes are reciprocally imprinted in both human and mouse. In most tissues, IGF2 is transcribed only from the paternal chromosome while H19 is transcribed only from the maternal allele. The presence of a differential methylation region (DMR) on the two parental alleles at the 5' flanking region of H19 has been proposed to constitute the gametic...
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