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A mine of imprinted genes

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Some genes exclusively express only their maternal or paternal copy. Studies of the brain extend the list of such imprinted genes by an order of magnitude, highlighting their spatial and temporal regulation.

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  1. Eric B. Keverne is in the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23 8AA, UK. ebk10@cam.ac.uk,

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Keverne, E. A mine of imprinted genes. Nature 466, 823–824 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466823a

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