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X Chromosome Inactivation

"X Chromosome Inactivation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A dosage compensation process occurring at an early embryonic stage in mammalian development whereby, at random, one X CHROMOSOME of the pair is repressed in the somatic cells of females.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "X Chromosome Inactivation" by people in this website by year, and whether "X Chromosome Inactivation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2009 and 2012 and 2017
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