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Analysis of the platypus genome suggests a transposon origin for mammalian imprinting

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Title
Analysis of the platypus genome suggests a transposon origin for mammalian imprinting
Published in
Genome Biology, January 2009
DOI 10.1186/gb-2009-10-1-r1
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Andrew J Pask, Anthony T Papenfuss, Eleanor I Ager, Kaighin A McColl, Terence P Speed, Marilyn B Renfree

Abstract

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that results in monoallelic gene expression. Many hypotheses have been advanced to explain why genomic imprinting evolved in mammals, but few have examined how it arose. The host defence hypothesis suggests that imprinting evolved from existing mechanisms within the cell that act to silence foreign DNA elements that insert into the genome. However, the changes to the mammalian genome that accompanied the evolution of imprinting have been hard to define due to the absence of large scale genomic resources between all extant classes. The recent release of the platypus genome has provided the first opportunity to perform comparisons between prototherian (monotreme; which appear to lack imprinting) and therian (marsupial and eutherian; which have imprinting) mammals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 6%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Brazil 2 2%
Austria 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Portugal 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 82 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 32 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 22%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Professor 6 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 6%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 6 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 67 68%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 18 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Mathematics 2 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 5 5%
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