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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

100 cases of inherited epigenetic inheritance

I was searching quite long for a review on that – but only to discover in the print version of a QRB article a reference to an online table. In homo sapiens, the author reports an increased cardiovascular mortality slash diabetes susceptibility (INS-IGF2-H19) through male germline and Angelman/Prader/Willi syndrome (from paternal grandmother). So there are only limited human examples so far, which is certainly due to the lack of appropriate sample collections yea, yea.

Addendum 29-Dec-2009

Video Link to an interview with Lars Olov Bygren.
I am still not sure about Angelman/Prader/Willi (as this is more with imprinting) – otherwise the updated list consists of

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