Genomic imprinting and Rare Diseases: A silent combination

What do Silver-Russell syndrome and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome have in common?
Have your heard about genomic imprinting? It is an epigenetic mechanism through which a certain gene(s) is silenced or expressed in a parent-specific manner.
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