Article
Genetic architecture of skewed X inactivation in the laboratory mouse.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2013
Calaway John D, Lenarcic Alan B, Didion John P, Wang Jeremy R, Searle Jeremy B, McMillan Leonard, Valdar William, Pardo-Manuel de Villena Fernando
Abstract excerpt
X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the mammalian mechanism of dosage compensation that balances X-linked gene expression between the sexes. Early during female development, each cell of the embryo proper independently inactivates one of its two parental X-chromosomes. In mice, the choice of which X chromosome is inactivated is affected by the genotype of a cis-acting locus, the X-chromosome controlling element...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Dosage Compensation, Genetic
- Female
- Genes, X-Linked
- Genetic Loci
- Haplotypes
- Mice
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Long Noncoding
