Recent  imprinting references/reviews

                      Overview of imprinting in animals

Peterson, K., and C. Sapienza.  1993.  Imprinting the genome: imprinted genes,
imprinting genes, and a hypothesis for their interaction.  Annual Review of
Genetics 27:  7-31.

Razin, A, and H. Cedar.  1994. DNA methylation and genomic imprinting.
Cell 77:  473-476.

Rainer, S., L. A. Johnson, C. J. Dobry, A. J. Ping, P. E. Grundy, and A. P.
Feinberg.  1993.  Relaxation of imprinted genes in human cancer.  Nature 362: 747-749

Barlow, D. P.  1995.  Gametic imprinting in mammals.   Science  270: 1610-1613


              Imprinting (and related systems) in plants

Todd, J. J., and L. O. Vodkin.  1996.  Duplications that suppress and deletions
that restore expression from a chalcone synthase multigene family.  Plant Cell 8: 687-699.

Matzke, M., and A. J. M. Matzke.  1993.  Genomic imprinting in plants: parental effects 
and trans-inactivation phenomena.  Annual. Reviews of Plant Physiology and Plant
Molecular Biology 44:  53-76.

Matzke, M., and A. J. M. Matzke.  1995.  How and why do plants inactivate homologous
(trans)genes?  Plant Physiology 107:  679-685.  

               The evolution of Imprinting

Mochizuki, A., Y. Takeda, and Y. Iwasa.  1996.  The evolution of genomic
imprinting.  Genetics  144:  1283--1295.

John, R. M., and M. A. Surani.  1996.  Imprinting genes and regulation of gene
expression by epigenetic inheritance.  Current Opinions in Cell Biology  8:  348-353.