What good is genomic imprinting: The function of parent-specific gene expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 359-368

  Wilkins, Jon F ^a,b   Haig, David ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SPECIFIC SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PATERNALLY EXPRESSED 3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MASH2; SOMATOMEDIN B; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIPLOIDY; FAMILY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST; WEANING;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PARENTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0038407464     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1062     Document Type: Review

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