Maternal effects as the cause of parent-of-origin effects that mimic genomic imprinting.

Abstract excerpt

Epigenetic effects are increasingly recognized as an important source of variation in complex traits and have emerged as the focus of a rapidly expanding area of research. Principle among these effects is genomic imprinting, which has generally been examined in analyses of complex traits by testing for parent-of-origin-dependent effects of alleles. However, in most of these analyses maternal effects are...

Topics

• Alleles
• Animals
• Female
• Genomic Imprinting
• Genotype
• Inheritance Patterns
• Mice
• Quantitative Trait Loci