Significados de parental imprinting en inglés

DNA methylation is considered the hallmark mechanism regulating parental imprinting.

Several recent models have tried to explain this variable expressivity by invoking parental imprinting and related aspects of epigenetic inheritance.

Parental imprinting results in monoallelic parent-of-origin-dependent gene expression.

Parental imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon by which genes are expressed in a monoallelic fashion, according to their parent of origin.