… We have identified regions within imprinted genes that show gamete-specific methylation …
germ cells and demonstrated that maternal methylation imprints on at least one imprinted gene…

… paternal imprinting is erased and new imprinting established … -specific expression of four
imprinted genes, two of which … , in the germ line of F1 hybrid mice utilizing quantitative RT-PCR …

… Whole mount of mouse embryo in midgastrulation, stained … cluster of cells that represents the
origin of the mouse germ cell … Biallelic expression of imprinted genes in the mouse germ line…

… imprinted gene loci, called imprinting control regions (ICRs), acquire specific imprint
marks in germ cells… These epigenetic imprints ensure that imprinted genes are expressed …

… Therefore, one of the reasons why primordial germ cells are … To test how the potentially
imprint-free primordial germ cell … Our findings on these three imprinted genes were identical to …

… genes are expressed biallelically, suggesting that imprints inherited from the gametes are
largely erased by this stage. To determine when in germ cell … of four imprinted genes – Snrpn, …

… at imprinted loci, suggesting that the sex of the germ cells may play a role in establishing the
XY imprinting … of the fetal testis environment on the paternal imprinting process, the extra X …

… imparted according to germ cell sex, imprinted genes are biallelically expressed as if imprints
… of asynchronous replication of imprinted genes is maintained in germ cells as in somatic …

… Because of these concerns, we sought to examine imprinted genes in cultured cells derived
from human stem cells. The Johns Hopkins University Institutional Review Board explicitly …

… imprinted genes is crucial for erasure of methylation-based … In any cases, demethylation of
imprinted genes mainly occurs … for the demethylation of imprinted genes in PGCs. On the other …