Article
How imprinting is relevant to human disease.
Development (Cambridge, England). Supplement - 1 Jan 1990
Hall J G
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting appears to be a ubiquitous process in mammals involving many chromosome segments whose affects are dependent on their parental origin. One of the challenges for clinical geneticists is to determine which disorders are manifesting imprinting effects and which families are affected. Re-evaluation of cases of chromosomal abnormalities and family histories of disease manifestations should give...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosome Disorders
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Phenotype
- Terminology as Topic
- Twins, Monozygotic