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Polymorphic X-chromosome inactivation of the human TIMP1 gene.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1999
Anderson C L, Brown C J
Abstract excerpt
X inactivation silences most but not all of the genes on one of the two X chromosomes in mammalian females. The human X chromosome preserves its activation status when isolated in rodent/human somatic-cell hybrids, and hybrids retaining either the active or inactive X chromosome have been used to assess the inactivation status of many X-linked genes. Surprisingly, the X-linked gene for human tissue inhibitor of...
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