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Preferred term

genomic imprinting  

Entry terms

  • genome imprinting

Note

  • Genes are recognized as undergoing genomic imprinting when they are capable of being expressed only from the paternal or only from the maternal chromosome. Development in mammals is influenced by genome imprinting which results in differences in the expression of some homologous maternal and paternal alleles. (Source : INRA)

Subject

  • Genetics and heredity
  • Reproduction biology

preferred label (skos-xl)

In other languages

  • Information

    lexinfo:gender: feminine

    lexinfo:partOfSpeech: noun

    empreinte génomique

    French

  • empreinte parentale

URI

https://opendata.inra.fr/BRMH/89

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