Term Information

Accession
GO:0009048
Name
dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
X chromosome inactivation, Barr body formation, chromosome inactivation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome:autosome ratios between sexes by a global inactivation of all, or most of, the genes on one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex. Source: Wikipedia:XY_sex-determination_system, GOC:jl, GOC:pr, ISBN:0140512888, PMID:20622855, GOC:mr, PMID:11498577
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0009048 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:0009048)
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dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation (GO:0007549)
Children of dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:0009048)
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inactivation of X chromosome by genomic imprinting (GO:0060819) [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
negative regulation of dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:1900096) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
random inactivation of X chromosome (GO:0060816) [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation (GO:0060820) [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
positive regulation of dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:1900097) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
regulation of dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:1900095) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
inactivation of paternal X chromosome (GO:0060817) [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
Wikipedia
X-inactivation