dosage compensation by hypoactivation of X chromosome
Term Information
Accession
GO:0042464
Name
dosage compensation by hypoactivation of X chromosome
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Compensating for the two-fold variation in X:autosome chromosome ratios between sexes by an inactivation of a proportion of genes on both of the X chromosomes of the XX sex, leading to a decrease, of half, of the levels of gene expression from these chromosomes. An example of this process is found in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Source:PMID:11102361,
GOC:jl,
GOC:mr