Imprinted genes and human disease: An evolutionary perspective

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 626, Issue , 2008, Pages 101-115

  Úbeda, Francisco ^a   Wilkins, Jon F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEREGULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; NEOPLASM; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY; EVOLUTION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETICS;

MAMMALIA;

DISEASE; EVOLUTION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS;

EID: 42449140726     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77576-0_8     Document Type: Review

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