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Nature Reviews Genetics 10, 4 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrg2515

Imprinting: Transcriptomics delivers

Louisa Flintoft

A study using transcriptomics has provided new insights into the extent and complexity of genomic imprinting. Babak and colleagues reciprocally crossed two wild-type mouse strains, extracted total RNA from embryos, made strand-specific cDNAs and carried out high-throughput sequencing.