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An evolutionary scenario for genomic imprinting of Impact lying between nonimprinted neighbors.
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes - 31 Dec 2004
Okamura Kohji, Yamada Yoichi, Sakaki Yoshiyuki, Ito Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Mouse Impact is the sole imprinted gene mapped to chromosome 18 to date. Despite its remarkable evolutionary conservation, human IMPACT was shown to escape genomic imprinting. Here we identified Hrh4 and Osbpl1 as the distal and proximal nearest neighbors of Impact, respectively, and found that both genes are expressed biallelically. Thus, in contrast with most imprinted genes, Impact fails to show apparent...
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