X chromosome inactivation and active X upregulation in therian mammals: Facts, questions, and hypotheses

Journal of Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-11

  Veitia, Reiner A ^a,b   Veyrunes, Frédéric ^c   Bottani, Samuel ^b,d   Birchler, James A ^e  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosage balance; Imprinting; Monoallelic expression; X chromosome upregulation; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CELL POPULATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SILENCING; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HI GENE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; THERIAN; TRISOMY; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XIST GENE; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; UP-REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84928230861     PISSN: 16742788     EISSN: 17594685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmcb/mjv001     Document Type: Review

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