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Genetic control of X chromosome inactivation in mice: definition of the Xce candidate interval.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2006
Chadwick Lisa Helbling, Pertz Lisa M, Broman Karl W, Bartolomei Marisa S, Willard Huntington F
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In early mammalian development, one of the two X chromosomes is silenced in each female cell as a result of X chromosome inactivation, the mammalian dosage compensation mechanism. In the mouse epiblast, the choice of which chromosome is inactivated is essentially random, but can be biased by alleles at the X-linked X controlling element (Xce). Although this locus was first described nearly four decades ago, the...
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