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Genomic imprinting in testicular germ cell tumours
1 Jan 1998
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Genomic imprinting refers to the parental origin-specific functional difference between the paternally and maternally-derived mammalian haploid genome. Normal embryogenesis depends on the presence of both a paternal and a maternal copy of particular chromosomal regions, containing the so-called imprinted genes. Genomic imprinting is established somewhere in the maturation from a primordial germ cell to a mature...
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