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Genomic imprinting in mammals-epigenetic parental memories.
Differentiation; research in biological diversity - 1 Sept 2011
Kaneda Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that brings the difference of expression between paternally or maternally derived alleles and is specific for mammals in vertebrates. This imprint is established in the parental germlines and then inherited to the next generation to regulate expression of imprinted genes that are essential to support proper embryonic development. More than one hundred imprinted genes...
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