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Causes and Consequences of Multi-Locus Imprinting Disturbances in Humans.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jul 2016
Sanchez-Delgado Marta, Riccio Andrea, Eggermann Thomas, Maher Eamonn R, Lapunzina Pablo, Mackay Deborah, Monk David
Abstract excerpt
Eight syndromes are associated with the loss of methylation at specific imprinted loci. There has been increasing evidence that these methylation defects in patients are not isolated events occurring at a given disease-associated locus but that some of these patients may have multi-locus imprinting disturbances (MLID) affecting additional imprinted regions. With the recent advances in technology, methylation...
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