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Parental Imprinting of the Genes for IGF-II and Its Receptor

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Current Directions in Insulin-Like Growth Factor Research

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 343))

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One of the basic tenets of Mendelian genetics is that autosomal traits are equivalently transmitted from each of the two parents. In recent years the molecular corollary of this has also been demonstrated for the majority of the genes studied: Both copies of each autosomal gene are equivalently expressed at the mRNA level, regardless of the parent from which each was derived.

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Polychronakos, C. (1994). Parental Imprinting of the Genes for IGF-II and Its Receptor. In: Le Roith, D., Raizada, M.K. (eds) Current Directions in Insulin-Like Growth Factor Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 343. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2988-0_19

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