ICRs regulate the expression of imprinted genes – genes where only one parental copy of the gene is active, while the other copy is silenced early in development. Imprinted genes are of special ...

For example, DNA methylation modifies gene expression without altering the nucleotide sequence. A well-studied DNA methylation-based phenomenon is genomic imprinting (ie, genotype-independent ...

This is not the case in genomic imprinting, which gets reset in each generation. The results from the Burga group cement the evolutionary link between parent-specific gene expression and host ...

According to the imprinted brain theory, paternal gene expression may cause a child to have a larger brain, develop more quickly, and demand more from the mother. Maternal gene expression may ...