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Evidence for local regulatory control of escape from imprinted X chromosome inactivation.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2014
Mugford Joshua W, Starmer Joshua, Williams Rex L, Calabrese J Mauro, Mieczkowski Piotr, Yee Della, Magnuson Terry
Abstract excerpt
X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is an epigenetic process that almost completely inactivates one of two X chromosomes in somatic cells of mammalian females. A few genes are known to escape XCI and the mechanism for this escape remains unclear. Here, using mouse trophoblast stem (TS) cells, we addr...
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