Dosage sensitivity of X-linked genes in human embryonic single cells
Abstract Background During the evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes, the degeneration of Y-linked homologs has led to a dosage imbalance between X-linked and autosomal genes. The evolutionary resolution to such dosage imbalance, as hypothesized by Susumu Ohno fifty years ago, should be doubling th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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Series: | BMC Genomics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-019-5432-8 |