AmiGO 2: Term Details for "XY body" (GO:0001741)

Accession: GO:0001741
Name: XY body
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A structure found in a male mammalian spermatocyte containing an unpaired X chromosome that has become densely heterochromatic, silenced and localized at the nuclear periphery. Source: Wikipedia:XY_sex-determination_system, GOC:hjd, PMID:20622855, GOC:mr
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0001741 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to XY body (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to XY body (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for XY body (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
XY body	is_a	sex chromosome (GO:0000803)
XY body	BFO:0000051	condensed chromatin of inactivated sex chromosome (GO:0098578)
XY body	RO:0002162	cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)

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