Genomic imprinting and cancer.

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Imprinting is vital for normal development, and disruption of imprinting mechanisms on syntenic chromosomes gives very similar phenotypes in mouse and humans. In addition, disruption of normal imprinting provides a plausible explanation for preferential LOH in some embryonal tumours. Moreover, there is evidence that in Wilms' tumour, dysregulation of specific imprinted genes may give rise to the cancer phenotype....

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