The role of tissue-specific imprinting as a source of phenotypic heterogeneity in human disease.

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Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon affecting a small number of genes that leads to expression from only one parental allele. Several imprinted genes are important for neurologic development and function and several neurobehavioral disorders are caused by genetic defects involving imprinted genes. For some genes, the imprinting is tissue specific, leading to biallelic expression in some tissues and...

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