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Accession
GO:0060820
Name
inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin assembly
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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 by the mechanism of heterochromatin formation. Source: GOC:dph, GOC:tb, GOC:sdb_2009
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Parents of inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation (GO:0060820)
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inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  constitutive heterochromatin formation (GO:0140719)
inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation [is_a relation] is_a  dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome (GO:0009048)

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