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Sex dependent imprinting effects on complex traits in mice.
BMC evolutionary biology - 31 Oct 2008
Hager Reinmar, Cheverud James M, Leamy Larry J, Wolf Jason B
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BACKGROUND: Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic source of variation in quantitative traits that results from monoallelic gene expression, where commonly either only the paternally- or the maternally-derived allele is expressed. Imprinting has been shown to affect a diversity of complex traits in...
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