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The non-coding Air RNA is required for silencing autosomal imprinted genes.
Nature - 14 Feb 2002
Sleutels Frank, Zwart Ronald, Barlow Denise P
Abstract excerpt
In genomic imprinting, one of the two parental alleles of an autosomal gene is silenced epigenetically by a cis-acting mechanism. A bidirectional silencer for a 400-kilobase region that contains three imprinted, maternally expressed protein-coding genes (Igf2r/Slc22a2/Slc22a3) has been shown by targeted deletion to be located in a sequence of 3.7 kilobases, which also contains the promoter for the imprinted,...
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