Genetic imprinting

external

• Parents

  • Mutation

• Children

  • Angelman syndrome
  • Prader-Willi syndrome
  • Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome

• Description

  • "We each get two copies of every gene - one copy from each of our parents. But what happens when one of these genes has been "turned off"
  • or imprinted
  • and the remaining gene is defective?"