The great escape: Active genes on inactive sex chromosomes and their evolutionary implications

Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 887-892

  Sin, Ho Su ^a,b   Namekawa, Satoshi H ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA damage response; Escape genes; Evolution; Meiosis; Sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME;

DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE; ESCAPE GENES; EVOLUTION; MEIOSIS; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, X-LINKED; GENES, Y-LINKED; GENOME; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATIDS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84883548093     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.25672     Document Type: Article

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