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Genetic conflict, genomic imprinting and establishment of the epigenotype in relation to growth.
Reproduction (Cambridge, England) - 1 Aug 2001
Moore T
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is the process that differentially modifies the parental alleles at certain genetic loci in the parental germlines. Such modifications of DNA and chromatin are somatically heritable and cause unequal expression of the parental alleles during subsequent development. In mammals, imprinted genes encode a relatively small number of functionally heterogeneous proteins. Nevertheless, imprinted genes...
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