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Maternal and paternal resource allocation before and after birth

Before birth and during weaning the mother's role in fetal nutrition and support far outweighs the father. Following weaning the role of the father increases. The placenta is only involved in utero; following this, the brain is likely to be the organ most important in the drive for resources. Expression of imprinted genes, acting as resource enhancers (RE) or inhibitors (RI), may alter to reflect this.

Links: Molecular Development - Epigenetics | Placenta Development

Reference

Frost JM & Moore GE. (2010). The importance of imprinting in the human placenta. PLoS Genet. , 6, e1001015. PMID: 20617174 DOI.

Copyright

© 2010 Frost, Moore. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1001015

Citation: Frost JM, Moore GE (2010) The Importance of Imprinting in the Human Placenta. PLoS Genet 6(7): e1001015. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001015

Editor: Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Published: July 1, 2010

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