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Mouse litter
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The body's tendency to silence the expression of one parental allele in favor of the other -- a practice known as genomic imprinting -- is much more widespread in the brain than scientists have believed, according to a new genome-wide study in mice. Surprisingly, more than 1300 genes in the mouse brain appear to exhibit "parent-of-origin" epigenetic effects. C. Gregg, et al., linkurl:Science,;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/20616232?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000%2Cf1000m 329:643-8, 2010. Evaluations by R. Sapolsky,...
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