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Category:GO:0009048 ! dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
name: dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
namespace: biological_process
def: "Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome:autosome ratios between sexes by heterochromatin formation leading to a global inactivation of all, or most of, the genes on one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex." [GOC:jl, GOC:mr, GOC:pr, PMID:11498577, PMID:20622855, Wikipedia:XY_sex-determination_system]
synonym: "Barr body formation" RELATED []
synonym: "chromosome inactivation" BROAD []
synonym: "X chromosome inactivation" EXACT []
xref: Wikipedia:X-inactivation
is_a: GO:0007549 ! sex-chromosome dosage compensation
is_a: GO:0031507 ! heterochromatin formation
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<GOterm>GO:0009048</GOterm>
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