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Genomic Imprinting

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As per available reports about 1 relevant journal, 2 Conferences, 3  symposiums are presently dedicated exclusively to Genomic imprinting and about 3 articles are being published on Genomic imprinting.

Genomic imprinting is the epigenetic phenomenon by which certain genes are expressed in a parent-of-origin-specific manner. If the allele inherited from the father is imprinted, it is thereby silenced, and only the allele from the mother is expressed.

It may also ensure transposable elements remain epigenetically silenced throughout gametogenic reprogramming to maintain genome integrity. It is an inheritance process independent of the classical Mendelian inheritance. In Homo sapiens, imprinted alleles are silenced such that the genes are either expressed only from the non-imprinted allele inherited from the mother, or in other instances from the non-imprinted allele inherited from the father. However, in plants parental genomic imprinting can refer to gene expression either solely or primarily from either parent's allele. Forms of genomic imprinting have been demonstrated in fungi, plants and animals.

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Scope & Importance:

Imprinted genes are susceptibility targets for numerous human pathologies because their functional haploid state enables a single genomic or epigenomic change to dysregulate their function causing potentially disastrous health effects. Imprinting anomalies are often manifested as developmental and neurological disorders when they occur during early development, and as cancer when altered later in life. Specifically, imprinting disorders have been linked to Angelman and Prader-Willi Syndromes, Alzheimer disease, autism, bipolar disorder, diabetes, male sexual orientation, obesity, and schizophrenia; as well as a number of cancers: bladder, breast, cervical, colorectal, esophageal, hepatocellular, lung, mesothelioma, ovarian, prostate, testicular, and leukemia, among others.

Genomic imprinting affects a subset of genes in mammals and results in a monoallelic, parental-specific expression pattern. Most of these genes are located in clusters that are regulated through the use of insulators or long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). To distinguish the parental alleles, imprinted genes are epigenetically marked in gametes at imprinting control elements through the use of DNA methylation at the very least. Imprinted gene expression is subsequently conferred through lncRNAs, histone modifications, insulators, and higher-order chromatin structure. Such imprints are maintained after fertilization through these mechanisms despite extensive reprogramming of the mammalian genome. Genomic imprinting is an excellent model for understanding mammalian epigenetic regulation.

Genetic imprinting occurs in the ovary or testis early in the formation of the eggs and sperm. Some genes are imprinted so that they are switched off or inactive only if they are passed down through an egg cell; others will be inactivated only if they are passed down through a sperm cell. Imprinting will then occur again in the next generation when that person produces his or her own sperm or eggs.

Relevant Society and Associations

1) The Society for Molecular Imprinting

2) Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

List of Best Conferences:

1. 6^th Proteomics Conference and  Expo, March 29-30, 2016, Atlanta, USA
2. Structural Biology Conference, June 23-24, 2016, New Orleans, USA
3. Next Generation Sequencing Conference, July 21-22, 2016, Berlin, Germany
4.  Nucleic Acids Conference, Aug 4-6, 2016, Seattle, USA
5. 2^nd Transcriptomics Conference, August 18-20, 2016, Portland, USA
6. 5^th Computational Systems Biology Conference, August 22-23, 2016, Philadelphia, USA
7. 2^nd Glycobiology Congress, August 29-31, 2016, Atlanta, USA
8. 2^nd Lipid Science Conference, October 06-08, 2016, Miami, USA
9. 7^th Proteomics Conference, October 24-26, 2016, Rome, Italy
10. Biochemistry Conference, October 13-15, 2016, Kualalumpur, Malaysia
11. 7^th Bioinformatics Conference, October 27-28, 2016, Chicago, USA
12. 2^nd Genetic and Protein Engineering Conference, November 14-16, 2016, Atlanta, USA
13. Glycomics Conference, December 01-03, 2016, Chicago, USA
14. Amino Acids and Proteins Congress, December 08-09, 2016, Baltimore, USA
15. Protein Engineering Conference , October 26-28, 2015, Chicago, USA
16. 5^th Biodiversity Conference, March 10-12, 2016 Madrid, Spain
17. 2^nd World Congress and  Expo on Applied Microbiology, October 31-November 02, 2016 Istanbul, Turkey
18. Water Microbiology and Novel Technologies conference, July 18-20, 2016 Chicago, USA
19. 7^th Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Summit, August 29-31, 2016 Atlanta, USA
20. Clinical and Molecular Genetics Conference, November 28-30, 2016 Chicago, USA
21. Genomics and Personalized Medicine, February 7—11, 2016, Canada
22. Small RNA Silencing: Little Guides, Big Biology, 24–28 January 2016, Keystone, United States
23. The Cancer Genome, 7–11 February 2016, Banff, Canada
24. LS2 Annual Meeting 2016 15–16 , February 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
25. Plant Epigenetics: From Genotype to Phenotype, 15–19 February 2016, Taos, United States
26. ICGP 2016 : 18th International Conference on Genomics and Pharmacogenomics
27. Building the brain: from genes to circuits and cognition, 19—20 November 2015, Royal Society, London
28. Genetic variation in the non-coding genome 10—11 November 2016, The Royal Society, Lond

Related associations:

1. National Human Genome Research Institute
2. Center for the Advancement of Genomics
3. Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
4. Research Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy
5. New York Genome Center
6. Genetic Information Research Institute

Genomic Companies :

1. Helix

2. Genetic Technologies Group

3. GeneWorks

4. Ambry Genetics

5. Biospyder Technologies

6. Predictive biology

7. NeoGenomics

8. Cypher Genomics

9. Agena Bioscience

10. Gigagen

11. ValueGene

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