The parental non-equivalence of imprinting control regions during mammalian development and evolution.

In mammals, imprinted gene expression results from the sex-specific methylation of imprinted control regions (ICRs) in the parental germlines. Imprinting is linked to therian reproduction, that is, the placenta and imprinting emerged at roughly the same time and potentially co-evolved. We assessed t...

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Main Authors: Reiner Schulz, Charlotte Proudhon, Timothy H Bestor, Kathryn Woodfine, Chyuan-Sheng Lin, Shau-Ping Lin, Marine Prissette, Rebecca J Oakey, Déborah Bourc'his
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2987832?pdf=render