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The mouse insulin-like growth factor type-2 receptor is imprinted and closely linked to the Tme locus.
Nature - 3 Jan 1991
Barlow D P, Stöger R, Herrmann B G, Saito K, Schweifer N
Abstract excerpt
T-associated maternal effect (Tme) is the only known maternal-effect mutation in the mouse. The defect is nuclear-encoded and embryos that inherit a deletion of the Tme locus from their mother die at day 15 of gestation. There are many genomically imprinted regions known in the mouse genome but so far no imprinted genes have been cloned. The Tme locus is absent in two chromosome-17 deletion mutants, Thp and the...
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