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Imprinting and Genetic Disease: Angelman, Prader-Willi and Beckwith-Weidemann Syndromes | Learn Science at Scitable

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We each get two copies of every gene - one copy from each of our parents. But what happens when one of these genes has been "turned off", or imprinted, and the remaining gene is defective?

Imprinting and Genetic Disease: Angelman, Prader-Willi and Beckwith-Weidemann Syndromes | Learn Science at Scitable This page has been archived and is no longer updated Imprinting and Genetic Disease: Angelman, Prader-Willi and Beckwith-Weidemann Syndromes By: Jill U. Adams, Ph.D. ( Freelance Science Writer, Albany, NY. ) © 2008 Nature Education Citation: Adams, J. (2008) Imprinting and genetic disease: Angelman, Prader-Willi and Beckwith-Weidemann syndromes. Nature Education 1( 1 ) :129 We each get two copies of every gene - one copy from each of our parents. But what happens when one of

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