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The Parental Non-Equivalence of Imprinting Control Regions during Mammalian Development and Evolution
18 Nov 2010
Abstract excerpt
In mammals, imprinted gene expression results from the sex-specific methylation of imprinted control regions (ICRs) in the parental germlines. Imprinting is linked to therian reproduction, that is, the placenta and imprinting emerged at roughly the same time and potentially co-evolved. We assessed the transcriptome-wide and ontology effect of maternally versus paternally methylated ICRs at the developmental stage...
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