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Is imprinting the result of “friendly fire” by the host defense system?
In 1993, Denise Barlow proposed that genomic imprinting might have arisen from a host defense mechanism designed to inactivate retrotransposons. Although there were few examples at hand, she suggested that there should be maternal-specific and paternal-specific factors involved, with cognate imprint...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32271759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008599 |