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A review of: Influence of paternally imprinted genes on development. Barton SC, Ferguson-Smith AC, Fundele R, Surani MA. Development. 1991 Oct;113(2):679-87.
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Imprinting is the epigenetic process of silencing genes. When you inherit chromosomes, some of these genes will be silenced through methylation, wherein methyl groups attach to the cytosine in DNA and lock it up so the genes that have been methylated cannot be expressed.
In 1991 Surani and colleagues aimed to find out how paternally imprinted genomes affected development of mouse embryos. They carried out the experiment by first transplanting androgenone inner cell mass into normal mouse blastocysts; these added cells only had paternally imprinted genes. The reciprocal experiment involved transplanting gynogenone inner cell mass, adding cells with maternally imprinted genes. The development of the embryos was influenced by the imprinting that had been added. Chimeric embryos containing both androgenone and normal cells had up to a 50% increase in growth, and the androgenone cells had a greater contribution to the development of the heart and skeletal muscle than normal cells but did not contribute as greatly to the brain’s development. Chimeric embryos containing both gynogenone and normal cells were the opposite, with a 50% decrease in growth and the gynogenone cells did not contribute much to skeletal muscle, but did contribute greatly to brain development.
These studies showed that a balance of maternally and paternally imprinted genes is essential to healthy development. Although genes had already been found that connected imprinting to growth regulation, this study was among the first to definitively link growth regulation to imprinting by investigating cells with only paternally imprinted genes. This study’s definitive findings helped to set up significant future studies that further confirmed the important role of imprinting in development.
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