obsolete inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin assembly
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
OBSOLETE. Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome: autosome ratios between sexes by a global inactivation of all, or most of, the genes on one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex by the mechanism of heterochromatin formation.
Source:
GOC:dph,
GOC:tb,
GOC:sdb_2009
Comment
This term was obsoleted because its meaning was ambiguous and the term was used inconsistently.
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