Sentence examples for acquired imprinting from inspiring English sources

In humans, germline-derived or post-zygotically acquired imprinting defects at IC1 are associated with aberrant activation or repression of IGF2, resulting in the congenital growth disorders Beckwith-Wiedemann (BWS) and Silver-Russell (SRS) syndromes, respectively.

It is possible that directly imprinted genes acquire imprinted monoallelic expression in a single step.

The acquired imprint instability may be carried onto the next generation and increase the risk for chronic diseases in adulthood.

Furthermore, these oocyte-like cells lost paternal imprinting but acquired maternal imprinting.

Domestic chicks imprinted on artificial stimuli in experimental settings showed increased synaptic connectivity in the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale (IMHV), which seems to be important for storage of memory acquired during imprinting [ 125, 126].

This is consistent with the fact that acquired methylation imprints were erased during embryogenesis.

In conclusion, a sufficient amount of DNMT3A/DNMT3L and a shift from the resistant to permissive state are essential to establish oocyte-specific methylation imprints and that maintenance of the acquired DNA methylation imprints is essential for functional imprinting.

Profile face images were collected using a high definition mid-wave IR camera that is capable of acquiring thermal imprints of human skin.

British rights for "A Suitable Girl," which is expected to be published in 2013, were acquired by an imprint of Penguin; an American publisher was not announced.

These predilections are presumably "learned" — "acquired" — but perhaps also imprinted in our genes, of biological necessity, neurophysiological fate, predilections that predate culture.

We examined whether CDKN1C became imprinted after it acquired a role in placental development, or if its placental expression pre-dated the evolution of its imprinting.