Since the turn of the century, circumstantial evidence has accumulated for the role of imprinted genes (those only expressed from one parent) in mental illnesses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ...

In mammals, the expression of certain genes depends on which parent they were inherited from. For most genes in a cell, both copies are turned either on or off. But for a small subset of genes in ...

For their discovery of genomic imprinting, developmental biologists Davor Solter and Azim Surani will receive the 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, endowed with €120,000, on March 14 at ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring.

A research team at the Biocenter of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), together with cooperation partners at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge (UK), has taken a significant step ...

Human cells usually contain two copies of most genes, one of which comes from the mother while the other comes from the father. It's long been thought that usually these two copies, or alleles of ...

Researchers have developed the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA methylation across 39 human cell types, revealing a complex landscape of epigenetic regulation. The study identified ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified new sites in the placenta where genomic imprinting occurs. This could find previously ...

Some types of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) have more genes affected, causing greater symptom severity. Older age of the mother is the only clearly established risk factor of PWS. PWS usually doesn’t ...