Maternal Effects as the Cause of Parent-of-Origin Effects That Mimic Genomic Imprinting From: Genetics | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Cheverud, James M; Wolf, Jason B; Hager, Reinmar | Copyright Genetics Society of America Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Epigenetic effects are increasingly recognized as an important source of variation in complex traits and have emerged as the focus of a rapidly expanding area of research. Principle among these effects is genomic imprinting, which has generally been examined in analyses of complex traits by testing for parent-of-origin-dependent effects of alleles. However, in most of these analyses maternal effects are confounded with genomic imprinting because they can produce the same patte...

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