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Complex imprinting

Two new papers report advances in the understanding of the GNAS complex locus of overlapping and oppositely directed transcripts that are subject to genomic imprinting.

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Figure 1: Transcript map of the Gnas/GNAS gene complex (modified from ref. 2).

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Beaudet, A. Complex imprinting. Nat Genet 36, 793–795 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0804-793

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