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A sensitive functional assay reveals frequent loss of genomic imprinting in human placenta.
Epigenetics - 1 Sept 2008
Lambertini Luca, Diplas Andreas I, Lee Men-Jean, Sperling Rhoda, Chen Jia, Wetmur James
Abstract excerpt
Loss of imprinting (LOI) is the gain of expression from the silent allele of an imprinted gene normally expressed from only one parental copy. LOI has been associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and reproductive abnormalities. The mechanisms of imprinting are varied, with DNA methylation re...
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