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The Role of Imprinted Genes in Fetal Growth
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is the phenomenon by which one of the two alleles of a subset of genes is preferentially expressed according to its parental origin. This pattern of inheritance is different from the more frequent mode of Mendelian inheritance, which is not influenced by the parental origin of the allele. The idea that imprinted genes can affect fetal growth is becoming increasingly intriguing as it has been...
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