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Genomic Imprinting: An Interdisciplinary Approach

By Robert Trivers , Austin Burt (auth.) , Dr. Rolf Ohlsson (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1999
ISBN
978-3-662-21956-0, 978-3-540-69111-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-69111-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7034364 bytes)
Series
Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 25
Edition
1
Pages
330\337
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Cell Biology; Biochemistrygeneral

Description

This book provides an unrivalled in-depth treatise of genomic imprinting, a phenomenon which plays a vital role in many biological processes in developmental biology, evolution and human diseases and genetics. The reason for this broad range of influence derives from the fact that genomic imprinting shields a number of important genes from the full effects of Mendelian inheritance. The importance of this surprising observation, which was discovered less than two decades ago, has been only slowly recognized. The reason for this may be that genomic imprinting is a difficult concept to understand. This book aims at providing interesting, entertaining and detailed information for any scientist, irrespective of their particular field of study.

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