Chromosome silencing mechanisms in X-chromosome inactivation: unknown unknowns.

Fifty years ago, Mary Lyon hypothesised that one of the two X chromosomes in female mammalian cells is inactivated at random during early embryogenesis and that the inactive X is then stably maintained through all subsequent cell divisions. Although Lyon's hypothesis is now widely regarded as f...

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Autor principal: Brockdorff, N
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2011