News tagged with imprinted genes


Explaining a genetic disorder's unique shift

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created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Findings reported in this week's PLoS Biology give insight into the unique characteristics of the birth defect known as Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), and at the same time, may help explain the way that a certain type of gen ...


Battle of sex in genes and the brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sex is good for a lot of things. One of the most important is the way in which sex leads to a shuffling of the genetic cards in every individual. Scientists in Cardiff are beginning to build up a picture of what certain genes ...





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Researchers look to imprinted genes for clues to fetal growth restriction in cloned swine

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), which results in low birth weight and long-term deleterious health effects in cloned swine, is linked ...


Scientists map imprinted genes in human genome

Scientists map imprinted genes in human genome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 30, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Scientists at Duke University have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning ...


Genetic riddle solved by kangaroo and platypus

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created Nov 01, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Australian scientists have unravelled a mystery of the origins of two debilitating human genetic diseases by studying the kangaroo and platypus genome.


Evolution of an imprinted domain in mammals

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created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The normal human genome contains 46 chromosomes: 23 from the mother and 23 from the father. Thus, you have two copies of every gene (excluding some irregularity in the pair of sex chromosomes). In general, which parent contributes ...


Birth of the maize grain with the entry of the male sex cell into the female sex cell

Genes in the sex cells of plants are marked to switch on or off before fertilisation

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created Jul 18, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Plant genes share the same mechanism found in mammals in the way they are marked or ‘imprinted’ to switch on or off depending on their sex, just before fertilisation. Oxford scientists have now shown that differences ...


Scientists find clue to mechanisms of gene signaling and regulation

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created Aug 22, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered a pattern in the DNA sequence of the mouse genome that may play a fundamental part in the way DNA molecules regulate gene expression. The research, led by Emory University scientists along with ...


Researchers create genetically matched embryonic stem cells for transplantation

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created Dec 14, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston report a new and efficient strategy, using eggs alone, for creating mouse embryonic stem cells that can be transplanted without the risk of rejection because the cells are compatible ...


Marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago

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created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the department of zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a proc ...


Parental genes do what's best for baby

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created Nov 29, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A molecular "battle of the sexes" long considered the major driving force in a baby's development is being challenged by a new genetic theory of parental teamwork.


Engineering autism: Mice with extra chromosome region show many autistic signs

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created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviors associated with human autism, researchers report in the June 26th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press Publication. The duplic ...



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