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Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting
Genomic imprinting is a normal process that causes genes to be expressed according to parental origin. The selective advantage conferred by imprinting is not understood but is hypothesised to act on dosage-critical genes. Here, we report a unique model in which the consequences of a single, double,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19247431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000392 |
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author | Teixeira da Rocha, Simao Charalambous, Marika Lin, Shau-Ping Gutteridge, Isabel Ito, Yoko Gray, Dionne Dean, Wendy Ferguson-Smith, Anne C. |
author_facet | Teixeira da Rocha, Simao Charalambous, Marika Lin, Shau-Ping Gutteridge, Isabel Ito, Yoko Gray, Dionne Dean, Wendy Ferguson-Smith, Anne C. |
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description | Genomic imprinting is a normal process that causes genes to be expressed according to parental origin. The selective advantage conferred by imprinting is not understood but is hypothesised to act on dosage-critical genes. Here, we report a unique model in which the consequences of a single, double, and triple dosage of the imprinted Dlk1/Pref1, normally repressed on the maternally inherited chromosome, can be assessed in the growing embryo. BAC-transgenic mice were generated that over-express Dlk1 from endogenous regulators at all sites of embryonic activity. Triple dosage causes lethality associated with major organ abnormalities. Embryos expressing a double dose of Dlk1, recapitulating loss of imprinting, are growth enhanced but fail to thrive in early life, despite the early growth advantage. Thus, any benefit conferred by increased embryonic size is offset by postnatal lethality. We propose a negative correlation between gene dosage and survival that fixes an upper limit on growth promotion by Dlk1, and we hypothesize that trade-off between growth and lethality might have driven imprinting at this locus. |
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spelling | pubmed-26400982009-02-27 Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting Teixeira da Rocha, Simao Charalambous, Marika Lin, Shau-Ping Gutteridge, Isabel Ito, Yoko Gray, Dionne Dean, Wendy Ferguson-Smith, Anne C. PLoS Genet Research Article Genomic imprinting is a normal process that causes genes to be expressed according to parental origin. The selective advantage conferred by imprinting is not understood but is hypothesised to act on dosage-critical genes. Here, we report a unique model in which the consequences of a single, double, and triple dosage of the imprinted Dlk1/Pref1, normally repressed on the maternally inherited chromosome, can be assessed in the growing embryo. BAC-transgenic mice were generated that over-express Dlk1 from endogenous regulators at all sites of embryonic activity. Triple dosage causes lethality associated with major organ abnormalities. Embryos expressing a double dose of Dlk1, recapitulating loss of imprinting, are growth enhanced but fail to thrive in early life, despite the early growth advantage. Thus, any benefit conferred by increased embryonic size is offset by postnatal lethality. We propose a negative correlation between gene dosage and survival that fixes an upper limit on growth promotion by Dlk1, and we hypothesize that trade-off between growth and lethality might have driven imprinting at this locus. Public Library of Science 2009-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2640098/ /pubmed/19247431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000392 Text en Teixeira da Rocha et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Teixeira da Rocha, Simao Charalambous, Marika Lin, Shau-Ping Gutteridge, Isabel Ito, Yoko Gray, Dionne Dean, Wendy Ferguson-Smith, Anne C. Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting |
title | Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting |
title_full | Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting |
title_fullStr | Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting |
title_full_unstemmed | Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting |
title_short | Gene Dosage Effects of the Imprinted Delta-Like Homologue 1 (Dlk1/Pref1) in Development: Implications for the Evolution of Imprinting |
title_sort | gene dosage effects of the imprinted delta-like homologue 1 (dlk1/pref1) in development: implications for the evolution of imprinting |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19247431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000392 |
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