Download or read book Genomic Imprinting written by Jon F. Wilkins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is neither to provide a basic introduction to imprinting, nor to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. Rather, the book covers more recent advances, drawing attention to the emerging subtleties and complexities associated with imprinted genes. Genomic imprinting refers to a recently discovered phenomenon in which the expression pattern of an allele depends on whether that allele was inherited from the mother or the father.