Recent advances in X-chromosome inactiva
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Sundeep Kalantry
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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X-chromosome inactivation is a paradigmatic epigenetic phenomenon that results in the mitotically heritable transcriptional inactivation of one X-chromosome in female mammals, thereby equalizing X-linked gene dosage between the sexes. The epigenetic factors and mechanisms that execute X-inactivation