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Next-Generation Sequencing Techniques Reveal that Genomic Imprinting Is Absent in Day-Old Gallus gallus domesticus Brains.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Wang Qiong, Li Kaiyang, Zhang Daixi, Li Junying, Xu Guiyun, Zheng Jiangxia, Yang Ning, Qu Lujiang
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon characterized by parent-of-origin-specific gene expression. While widely documented in viviparous mammals and plants, imprinting in oviparous birds remains controversial. Because genomic imprinting is temporal- and tissue-specific, we investigated this phenomenon only in the brain tissues of 1-day-old chickens (Gallus gallus). We used next-generation sequencing technology to...
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