Major breakthrough in understanding Prader-Willi Syndrome, a parental imprinting disorder

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have reported a major breakthrough in understanding the molecular basis for Prader-Willi syndrome, perhaps the most studied among diseases that involves defects in parental imprinting. Investigators showed that the genes expressed from the father are actually affecting and silencing the genes that are expressed from the mother -- findings that have significance for how we view parental imprinting and in particular the molecular basis of Prader-Willi syndrome.
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