Imprinting evolution and the price of silence

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 577-588

  Murphy, Susan K ^a   Jirtle, Randy L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EGG LAYING; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MUTATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SEX;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 0038118635     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10277     Document Type: Review

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