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Category:GO:0140719 ! constitutive heterochromatin formation
name: constitutive heterochromatin formation
namespace: biological_process
def: "The compaction of chromatin into a conformation that is refactory to transcription." [PMID:17936700]
comment: Note that constitutive heterochromatin indicates that it usually cannot be reprogrammed to a transcriptionally-competent state, as opposed to facultative heterochromatin, which can be reprogrammed.
synonym: "constitutive heterochromatin assembly" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0031507 ! heterochromatin formation
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<GOterm>GO:0140719</GOterm>
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