Developmental peculiarities in placentae of ovine uniparental conceptuses.

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon regulating mono-allelic expression of genes depending on their parental origin. Defective genomic imprinting is involved in several placental disorders, such as intrauterine growth restriction and pre-eclampsia. Uniparental embryos, having maternal-only...

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Main Authors: Roberta Arena, Federica Zacchini, Paola Toschi, Luca Palazzese, Marta Czernik, Grażyna Ewa Ptak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5708791?pdf=render