Medical Definition of Genomic imprinting

1. Parent specific expression or repression of genes or chromosomes in offspring. There are an increasing number of recognised chromosomal imprinting events in pathological conditions: for example preferential transmission of paternal or maternal predisposition to diabetes or atopy, preferential retention of paternal alleles in rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, retinoblastoma and Wilm's tumour, preferential translocation to the paternal chromosome 9 of a portion of maternal chromosome 22 to form the Philadelphia chromosome of chronic myeloid leukaemia. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genomic Imprinting

genoise
genoises
genolectotype
genom
genome
genome project
genome projects
genome transplant
genomes
genometastasis
genomewide
genomic
genomic DNA
genomic equivalence
genomic formula
genomic imprinting (current term)
genomic library
genomic plasticity
genomically
genomicist
genomicists
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genomovar
genomovars
genoms
genopathy
genopharmacology
genophilia
genophobes

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