Browsing Scholarly Articles by Subject "X Chromosome Inactivation"

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Skewed X inactivation and survival: a 13-year follow-up study of elderly twins and singletons.

Mengel-From, J; Thinggaard, M; Christiansen, L; Vaupel, James Walton; Orstavik, KH; Christensen, Kaare (Eur J Hum Genet, 2012-03)

In mammalian females, one of the two X chromosomes is inactivated in early embryonic life. Females are therefore mosaics for two cell populations, one with the maternal and one with the paternal X as the active X chromosome. ...