Mechanisms of genomic imprinting in mammals.

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This chapter can be summarized by the following main points: Genomic imprinting results in the functional nonequivalence of the maternal and paternal genomes, thereby preventing the development of viable parthenogenotes and androgenotes in eutherian mammals. Imprinting may have arisen as a result of the specialized evolutionary requirements of the parental genomes or may have been an obligatory step in the...

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