Term Information

Accession
GO:0042464
Name
dosage compensation by hypoactivation of X chromosome
Ontology
biological_process
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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
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History
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dosage compensation by hypoactivation of X chromosome [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation (GO:0007549)

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