The leading theoretical explanation for the evolution of genomic imprinting is the Kinship Theory, which was proposed by David Haig here at Harvard in 1989.
Genomic imprinting is one of the most provocative and exciting fields of research falling under the umbrella of “epigenetics”.Imprinting is thought to be a rare, but extraordinarily important mode of gene regulation in the genome and is the primary focus of my research.For this post, I am putting up an excerpt from Brady Weissbourd’s undergraduate thesis.
