Novel polymorphisms within the Dlk1-Dio3 imprinted locus in rat: A putative genetic basis for strain-specific allelic gene expression

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Sittig, Laura J ^a,b   Redei, Eva E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic expression; Hippocampus; Imprinting; Iodothyronine deiodinase III; Parent of origin; Polymorphism; Rat

Indexed keywords

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84876076228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00296     Document Type: Article

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