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Heritability of X chromosome--inactivation phenotype in a large family.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 1996
Naumova A K, Plenge R M, Bird L M, Leppert M, Morgan K, Willard H F, Sapienza C
Abstract excerpt
One of the two X chromosomes in each somatic cell of normal human females becomes inactivated very early in embryonic development. Although the inactivation of an X chromosome in any particular somatic cell of the embryonic lineage is thought to be a stochastic and epigenetic event, a strong genetic influence on this process has been described in the mouse. We have attempted to uncover evidence for genetic...
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