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Identification and characterisation of imprinted genes in the mouse.
Briefings in functional genomics & proteomics - 1 Feb 2004
Peters Jo, Beechey Colin
Abstract excerpt
Imprinted genes are expressed specifically from one or other parental allele. Over 70 are now known, and about one-half of these are expressed from the paternal allele and one-half from the maternal allele. Most imprinted genes are clustered within imprinting regions of the mouse genome, regions which are associated with abnormal phenotypes when inherited uniparentally. Imprinted genes have been identified from...
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