Genetics: Analysis and Principles
Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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Author: Robert J. Brooker Professor Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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What is the key difference between c i s and trans-epigenetic mechanisms for maintaining an epigenetic modification? In Chapter 5, we considered genomic imprinting of the Igf2 gene, in which offspring express the copy of the gene they inherit from their father, but not the copy they inherit from their mother. Is this acis- or a trans-epigenetic mechanism?

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