Marsupials And Humans Share Same Genetic Imprinting That Evolved...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 07/15/2008 - 08:30

Research published in Nature Genetics has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a process involved in marsupial and human fetal development, which evolved 150 million years ago.


 

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