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Imprinted X inactivation and reprogramming in the preimplantation mouse embryo.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Apr 2005
Sado Takashi, Ferguson-Smith Anne C
Abstract excerpt
X chromosome inactivation is a developmentally regulated process that causes one of the two X chromosomes in normal female mammals to become transcriptionally silenced, thus equalizing the expression of X-linked genes between the sexes. Such dosage compensation depends upon dynamic genetic and epigenetic events occurring very early in development. X inactivation is controlled by an X inactivation centre that is...
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