The maternal-specific inheritance pattern of Angelman syndrome is due to
genomic imprinting of UBE3A in neurons of the central nervous system, a naturally occurring phenomenon in which the maternal UBE3Aallele is expressed and the paternal UBE3A is not.
The reader is referred to the 'parental conflict hypothesis' for more information on the evolution of
genomic imprinting, and thoughts about why specific genes may have been selected for differential imprinting by the male and female lineages, respectively.
In mammals, because certain maternal or paternal genes are shut off during germline development by a mechanism called
genomic imprinting, offspring that don't receive genetic material from both a mother and a father might experience developmental abnormalities or might not be viable.
2014), and
genomic imprinting (Bartolomei and Ferguson-Smith 2011).
The
genomic imprinting represents a non-Mendelian heredity model and is a process of "marking" of some genes preferentially expressed from a single parental allele.
DNA methylation is one of the key processes that could affect individual development,
genomic imprinting, sex chromosome inactivation and transposable element silencing (Zentner and Henikoff, 2014).
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genomic imprinting: an essential and multifaceted mode of epigenetic control in the developing and adult brain.
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Lack of MTHFR activity due to presence of its polymorphic variants will reduce the availability of methyl group donors that are needed for methylalation of DNA (9) which may adversely affect the global genome methylation and also the
genomic imprinting of paternal genes in spermatogenetic cells.
Genomic imprinting occurs when epigenetic marks are established in the germ line such that sperm or eggs carry information that transfers to the next generation.