Search Ontology:
GO: Biological Process
dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
- Term ID
- GO:0009048
- Synonyms
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- Barr body formation
- chromosome inactivation
- X chromosome inactivation
- Definition
- Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome:autosome ratios between sexes by heterochromatin formation leading to a global inactivation of all, or most of, the genes on one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex. (3)
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- Ontology
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Phenotype
Phenotype caused by Genes