In his inaugural professorial lecture at Cambridge, William Bateson, one of the fathers of Mendelian genetics, admonished students of the new science: If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners ...

Figure 1: Atlas of genomic imprinting in mouse. In conclusion, our human and mouse imprinting atlases have shown the patterns of imprinting—across development, tissues and species—in unprecedented ...

Humans come in a variety of heights — and genetics play a key role in determining whether you will be short or tall. There’s much more than just heredity to consider before assuming a person will ...

Scientists are closer to understanding the mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of genomic imprinting. In this intriguing event, one copy of a gene is 'turned off', or silenced, depending on whether ...

Researchers report that a nuanced, targeted version of parental control over gene expression is the method of choice over classic genomic imprinting. So-called noncanonical imprinting is particularly ...

Genomic imprinting, a mechanism that mutes gene expression in a parent-of-origin manner, can be highly targeted, affecting not just particular tissues, but even tissue subregions, mere clusters of ...

Further confirmation of a link between 'imprinting' disorders and assisted reproduction techniques (ART) was provided to the 21st annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and ...