Cited by 22Genetic Syndromes and ImprintingBirth, Development, and HealthChromosomal and Genetic Variations

What does genetics tell us about imprinting and the placenta connection?

Open access
Varmuza, Susannah, Miri, Kamelia·2015·Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Abstract

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic gene silencing phenomenon that is specific to eutherians in the vertebrate lineage. The acquisition of both placentation and genomic imprinting has spurred interest in the possible evolutionary link for many years. In this review we examine the genetic evidence and find that while many imprinted domains are anchored by genes required for proper placenta development in a parent of origin fashion, an equal number of imprinted genes have no apparent function that depends on imprinting. Examination of recent data from studies of molecular and genetic mechanisms points to a maternal control of the selection and maintenance of imprint marks, reinforcing the importance of the oocyte in the healthy development of the placenta and fetus.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s00018-014-1714-0

Cites

181 of 181 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Imprinted genes are known to have a disproportionately important role in fetal-placental development and are involved in resource allocation more widely.

    “These studies have tended to concentrate on the imprinted genes, which are known to have a disproportionately important role in fetal-placental development and are involved in resource allocation more widely (126, 189, 385, 544).”

    From Placental Origins of Chronic Disease (2016) · cites this paper as [544]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. [120]Okae H, Hiura H, Nishida Y, et al. Re-investigation and RNA sequencing-based identification of genes with placenta-specific imprinted expression. Hum Mol Genet. 2012;21:548–558. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddr488. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] · DOI
  2. [182]Wutz A, Theussl HC, Dausman J, et al. Non-imprinted Igf2r expression decreases growth and rescues the Tme mutation in mice. Dev Camb Engl. 2001;128:1881–1887. doi: 10.1242/dev.128.10.1881. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] · DOI

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Varmuza, S., & Miri, K.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Varmuza, Susannah
Venue
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Published
2014-09-07
Volume
72
Issue
1
Pages
51-72
ISSN
  • 1420-682X (ISSN-L)
  • 1420-9071
OpenAlex
W2011113753
Cited by
22
References
181
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
FWCI
0.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Birth, Development, and Health
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Keywords
genomic imprinting, placental evolution, placentation, epigenetic silencing, oocytes, imprinted genes, placental mammals
MeSH terms
Animals, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Placentation, Pregnancy, Genomic Imprinting, Epigenesis, Genetic

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review