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Genomic imprinting: employing and avoiding epigenetic processes.
Genes & development - 15 Sept 2009
Bartolomei Marisa S
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Genomic imprinting refers to an epigenetic mark that distinguishes parental alleles and results in a monoallelic, parental-specific expression pattern in mammals. Few phenomena in nature depend more on epigenetic mechanisms while at the same time evading them. The alleles of imprinted genes are marked epigenetically at discrete elements termed imprinting control regions (ICRs) with their parental origin in...
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