Unmasking a role for sex chromosomes in gene silencing.


Autoria(s): Maatouk, DM; Capel, B
Data(s)

2010

Identificador

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20875148

gb-2010-11-9-134

Genome Biol, 2010, 11 (9), pp. 134 - ?

http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4396

1474-760X

Idioma(s)

ENG

en_US

Relação

Genome Biol

10.1186/gb-2010-11-9-134

Genome biology

Tipo

Journal Article

Cobertura

England

Resumo

Several sexually dimorphic phenotypes correlate with sex-chromosome dosage rather than with phenotypic sex. New research suggests that sex chromosome dimorphism helps to regulate gene silencing.

Formato

134 - ?

Palavras-Chave #Animals #Chromosomes, Human, X #Chromosomes, Human, Y #Dosage Compensation, Genetic #Female #Gene Dosage #Gene Expression Profiling #Gene Expression Regulation #Gene Silencing #Humans #Male #Phenotype #Sex Characteristics #Sex Chromosomes #Sex Determination Processes #Sex-Determining Region Y Protein