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Mammalian X chromosome inactivation evolved as a dosage-compensation mechanism for dosage-sensitive genes on the X chromosome

How and why female somatic X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) evolved in mammals remains poorly understood. It has been proposed that XCI is a dosage-compensation mechanism that evolved to equalize expression levels of X-linked genes in females (2X) and males (1X), with a prior twofold increase in expr...

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Main Authors: Pessia, Eugénie, Makino, Takashi, Bailly-Bechet, Marc, McLysaght, Aoife, Marais, Gabriel A. B.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3325647/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22392987
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116763109
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