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Genetic and parent-of-origin influences on X chromosome choice in Xce heterozygous mice.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Sept 2005
Chadwick Lisa Helbling, Willard Huntington F
Abstract excerpt
X chromosome inactivation is unique among dosage compensation mechanisms in that the two X chromosomes in females are treated differently within the same cell; one X chromosome is stably silenced while the other remains active. It is widely believed that, when X inactivation is initiated, each cell makes a random choice of which X chromosome will be silenced. In mice, only one genetic locus, the X-linked X...
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