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Choice of random rather than imprinted X inactivation in female embryonic stem cell-derived extra-embryonic cells
10 Dec 2010
Abstract excerpt
In female mammals, one of two X chromosomes is epigenetically inactivated for gene dosage compensation, known as X inactivation (Xi). Inactivation occurs randomly in either the paternal or maternal X chromosome in all embryonic cell lineages, designated as random Xi. By contrast, in extra-embryonic cell lineages, which are segregated from somatic cell lineages in pre-implantation development, the paternal X...
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