This research was supported lay the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30571328), the Students Research Fund (SRF) of Huazhong Agricultural University (A06056), the Key Project of the National Basic Research and Developmental Plan (2006CB102105) of China, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-05-0669), and the Hubei Province Natural Science Creative Team Project (2006ABC008)
Imprinted genes play important roles in mammalian growth, development and behavior. Mouse mesoderm-specific transcript (MEST) has been identified as an imprinted gene and mapped to an imprinted region of mouse chrom...