Extending the maternal-zygotic effect with genomic imprinting.

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Maternal effect refers to the genetic phenomenon in which a phenotype in the progeny is caused by a genetic mutation in the maternal genome rather than a mutation of its own. Maternal effect genes are usually involved in the maternal-to-zygotic transition during embryonic development before zygotic genes are turned on. Although it is widely observed in invertebrate organisms, it is not common in vertebrate...

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