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GO:0009047
Name
dosage compensation by hyperactivation of X chromosome
Ontology
biological_process
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Definition
Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome:autosome ratios between sexes by a global hyperactivation of all, or most of, the genes on the X-chromosome in the heterogametic sex, leading to a two-fold increase in gene expression from this chromosome. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster. Source: GOC:jl, GOC:mr, PMID:11498577, PMID:1568251
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dosage compensation by hyperactivation of X chromosome [is_a relation] is_a  sex-chromosome dosage compensation (GO:0007549)

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