genetic imprinting

id: GO:0071514
name: genetic imprinting
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving macromolecules by a mechanism that is mediated by DNA, is mitotically or meiotically heritable, or is stably self-propagated in the cytoplasm of a resting cell, and does not entail a change in DNA sequence.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0006349regulation of gene expression by genetic imprinting
GO:0071515genetic imprinting at mating-type locus

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006139nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process
GO:0060255regulation of macromolecule metabolic process