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imprinting

Description

"Heritable alterations in the activity of a gene that depend on whether it passed through the paternal or the maternal germline, but that are not encoded by DNA itself." [GOC:ems, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology", PMID:11498578]

Parents

nucleobase, nucleoside, nucleotide and nucleic acid metabolic processregulation of gene expression, epigenetic

Terms

DNA imprintingEnglish- exact synonym

Identifier

GO:0006349

Hierarchy

gene ontology entity

biological_process

cellular process

cellular metabolic process

nucleobase, nucleoside, nucleotide and nucleic acid metabolic process

	imprinting
	DNA metabolic process
	gene silencing
	nucleobase metabolic process
	nucleobase, nucleoside and nucleotide interconversion
	nucleoside metabolic process
	nucleotide metabolic process
	nucleotide-sugar metabolic process
	programmed DNA elimination
	purine salvage
	pyrimidine salvage
	RNA metabolic process
	transcription

metabolic process

biological regulation

regulation of biological process

regulation of gene expression, epigenetic

	imprinting
	DNA methylation
	dosage compensation
	negative regulation of gene expression, epigenetic
	positive regulation of gene expression, epigenetic
	posttranscriptional gene silencing
	regulation of protein activity, epigenetic