Article
Demography, kinship, and the evolving theory of genomic imprinting.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jul 2011
Brandvain Yaniv, Van Cleve Jeremy, Ubeda Francisco, Wilkins Jon F
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is the differential expression of an allele based on the parent of origin. Recent transcriptome-wide evaluations of the number of imprinted genes reveal complex patterns of imprinted expression among developmental stages and cell types. Such data demand a comprehensive evolutionary framework in which to understand the effect of natural selection on imprinted gene expression. We present such a...
Topics
- Animals
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Fitness
- Genomic Imprinting
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Selection, Genetic