March 7th:
More on Last Week's Seminar by
(am I bringing food again???? somehow I seem to be getting the wrong end of this deal)
Christopher Gregg
University of Utah, department of Neurobiology and Anatomy link
Gregg C, Zhang J, Haig D, Dulac C. (2010) Sex-Specific Parent-of-Origin Allelic expression in the Mouse Brain. Science, 329(5992):682-5.
and have a look at the supplementary figures too.
You might want to look up X-chromosome inactivation....found a review.
In your spare time, go find your favorite gene on the Allen Brain Atlas.
How can you get chromosome specific alternate splicing???? go figure this out!
I promised to look into the Police Report reference on Grandmother's and babysitting
Rebecca promised to work through the PWS Angelman story
Last week we read a couple Reviews by Keverne et al.... go see what else Keverne has written more recently on imprinting. I thought I saw a 2008 paper that looked very relevant.
for review of mechanism see: Reik W, Walter J (2001) Genomic imprinting: Parental influence on the genome. Nat. Rev. Genet. 2:21
(If you find a more recent but equally readable review on imprinting, let me know and I'll post it)
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