genetic imprinting at mating-type locus

id: GO:0071515
name: genetic imprinting at mating-type locus
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A genetic imprinting process in which a stable single-strand DNA lesion triggers programmed gene conversion at the mating-type locus, thereby restricting mating-type interconversion to one of the two sister chromatids during DNA replication.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006259DNA metabolic process
GO:0031494regulation of mating type switching
GO:0071514genetic imprinting