In other words, these traumatized or Maternally deprived children stop growing mentally and physically.
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In the brain, the paternally derived
UBE3A gene is silenced, and only the Maternally inherited copy is active.
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Due to imprinting, the Maternally inherited copies of these genes are virtually silent,
and only the paternal copies of the genes are expressed.
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Instability is greater in spermatogenesis than oogenesis; Maternally inherited alleles are usually of a similar repeat length,
whereas paternally inherited ones have a higher chance of increasing in length.