Genomic imprinting of <it>IGF2 </it>in marsupials is methylation dependent
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background-</p> <p>Parent-specific methylation of specific CpG residues is critical to imprinting in eutherian mammals, but its importance to imprinting in marsupials and, thus, the evolutionary origins of the imprinting mechanism have been the subjec...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-05-01
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Series: | BMC Genomics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/205 |