X-chromosome inactivation: A hypothesis linking ontogeny and phylogeny

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 410-418

  Huynh, Khanh D ^a   Lee, Jeannie T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; INHERITANCE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; WORM; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 17744362327     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1604     Document Type: Review

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