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Essential role for de novo DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a in paternal and maternal imprinting.
Nature - 24 Jun 2004
Kaneda Masahiro, Okano Masaki, Hata Kenichiro, Sado Takashi, Tsujimoto Naomi, Li En, Sasaki Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
Imprinted genes are epigenetically marked during gametogenesis so that they are exclusively expressed from either the paternal or the maternal allele in offspring. Imprinting prevents parthenogenesis in mammals and is often disrupted in congenital malformation syndromes, tumours and cloned animal...
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