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Karyotype-phenotype correlation in females with X chromosome abnormalities.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 17 Jun 1997
Kosmaidou-Aravidou Z
Abstract excerpt
In mammals, females have a pair of X chromosomes, whereas males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, which is much smaller and contains fewer genes than a X chromosome. One of the pair of X chromosomes is inactivated in females. The inactivated X chromosome is late-replicating, heterochromatic, and genetically unexpressed. An X inactivation center (XIC) located at a proximal region on Xq is thought to...
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