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Limited evolutionary conservation of imprinting in the human placenta.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Apr 2006
Monk D, Arnaud P, Apostolidou S, Hills F A, Kelsey G, Stanier P, Feil R, Moore G E
Abstract excerpt
The epigenetic phenomenon of genomic imprinting provides an additional level of gene regulation that is confined to a limited number of genes, frequently, but not exclusively, important for embryonic development. The evolution and maintenance of imprinting has been linked to the balance between t...
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