Retrotransposon silencing by DNA methylation can drive mammalian genomic imprinting.

Retrotransposon silencing by DNA methylation can drive mammalian genomic imprinting.

Among mammals, only eutherians and marsupials are viviparous and have genomic imprinting that leads to parent-of-origin-specific differential gene expression. We used comparative analysis to investigate the origin of genomic imprinting in mammals. PEG10 (paternally expressed 10) is a retrotransposon...

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Main Authors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Ryuichi Ono, Takanori Narita, Andrew J Pask, Geoffrey Shaw, Changshan Wang, Takashi Kohda, Amber E Alsop, Jennifer A Marshall Graves, Yuji Kohara, Fumitoshi Ishino, Marilyn B Renfree, Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1851980?pdf=render

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