5meCpG epigenetic marks neighboring a primate-conserved core promoter short tandem repeat indicate X-chromosome inactivation.

X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the epigenetic transcriptional silencing of an X-chromosome during the early stages of embryonic development in female eutherian mammals. XCI assures monoallelic expression in each cell and compensation for dosage-sensitive X-linked genes between females (XX) and m...

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Main Authors: Filipe Brum Machado, Fabricio Brum Machado, Milena Amendro Faria, Viviane Lamim Lovatel, Antonio Francisco Alves da Silva, Claudia Pamela Radic, Carlos Daniel De Brasi, Álvaro Fabricio Lopes Rios, Susana Marina Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Leonardo Serafim da Silveira, Carlos Ramon Ruiz-Miranda, Ester Silveira Ramos, Enrique Medina-Acosta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4117532?pdf=render