Parental imprinting and human disease

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 173-195

  Lalande, M ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

allelic methylation and replication; Angelman syndrome; Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome; Prader Willi syndrome; Wilms' tumor

Indexed keywords

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME 15Q; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HEMIZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PARENT; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

ANGELMAN SYNDROME; BECKWITH-WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0030458551     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.173     Document Type: Review

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