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Abstract
In a considerable number of genetic disorders in the human, the phenotypic expression of the disease can depend on maternal or paternal inheritance of the mutation. It is suggested that genomic imprinting, an epigenetic process that marks maternal and paternal chromosomes in mammals, is involved in such parental effects.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2692240 DOI: 10.1016/0168-9525(89)90138-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639