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Monoallelic expression of MAOA in skin fibroblasts.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 22 Sept 2006
Nordquist Niklas, Oreland Lars
Abstract excerpt
X chromosome inactivation in mammalian females occurs early in embryonic development and renders most genes on the inactive X chromosome transcriptionally silenced. As a consequence, females will display an X chromosomal parent-of-origin mosaiscism with regard to which parental allele that is expressed. Some genes, however, escape inactivation and will therefore be expressed from both alleles. In this study, we...
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