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Term Information

Accession
GO:0031507
Name
heterochromatin formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
chromatin silencing, chromatin-mediated silencing, establishment of heterochromatin architecture, heterochromatin assembly, establishment of chromatin silencing, establishment of heterochromatic silencing, heterochromatic silencing, heterochromatin assembly involved in chromatin silencing, heterochromatin formation involved in chromatin silencing, transcriptional gene silencing, establishment of heterochromatin architecture involved in chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat region, establishment of heterochromatin architecture involved in chromatin silencing at pericentric region, heterochromatin assembly involved in chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat region, heterochromatin assembly involved in chromatin silencing at pericentric region, heterochromatin formation involved in chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat region, heterochromatin formation involved in chromatin silencing at pericentric region, TGS, heterochromatin maintenance
Alternate IDs
GO:0016440, GO:0006342, GO:1904497, GO:0070869, GO:0006343
Definition
An epigenetic gene silencing mechanism in which chromatin is compacted into heterochromatin, resulting in a chromatin conformation refractory to transcription. This process starts with heterochromatin nucleation, its spreading, and ends with heterochromatin boundary formation. Source: PMID:25192661, PMID:33827924
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0031507 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031507)
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heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin organization (GO:0070828)
heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  negative regulation of gene expression, epigenetic (GO:0045814)
Children of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031507)
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negative regulation of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031452) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  heterochromatin formation
constitutive heterochromatin formation (GO:0140719) [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin formation
regulatory ncRNA-mediated heterochromatin formation (GO:0031048) [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin formation
positive regulation of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031453) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  heterochromatin formation
heterochromatin boundary formation (GO:0033696) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  heterochromatin formation
pericentric heterochromatin organization (GO:0140462) [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin formation
regulation of heterochromatin formation (GO:0031445) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  heterochromatin formation
facultative heterochromatin formation (GO:0140718) [is_a relation] is_a  heterochromatin formation
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