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The inactive X chromosome is silenced by being packaged into a transcriptionally inactive structure called heterochromatin. As nearly all female mammals have two X chromosomes, X-inactivation prevents them from having twice as many X chromosome gene products as males, who only possess a single copy of the X chromosome (see dosage compensation).
Xist (X-inactive specific transcript) is a non-coding RNA transcribed from the X chromosome of the placental mammals that acts as a major effector of the X-inactivation process. [5] It is a component of the Xic – X-chromosome inactivation centre [6] – along with two other RNA genes (Jpx and Ftx) and two protein genes (Tsx and Cnbp2). [7]
X chromosome reactivation (XCR) is the process by which the inactive X chromosome (the Xi) is re-activated in the cells of eutherian female mammals. Therian female mammalian cells have two X chromosomes, while males have only one, requiring X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) for sex-chromosome dosage compensation.
The X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes in many ... it identifies the inactive X (Xi). The X chromosome in humans spans more than 153 million base ...
A Barr body (named after discoverer Murray Barr) [1] or X-chromatin is an inactive X chromosome. In species with XY sex-determination (including humans), females typically have two X chromosomes, [ 2 ] and one is rendered inactive in a process called lyonization .
Nonrandom X-inactivation leads to skewed X-inactivation. Nonrandom X-inactivation can be caused by chance or directed by genes. If the initial pool of cells in which X-inactivation occurs is small, chance can cause skewing to occur in some individuals by causing a bigger proportion of the initial cell pool to inactivate one X chromosome.
n/a Ensembl ENSG00000270641 n/a UniProt n a n/a RefSeq (mRNA) n/a n/a RefSeq (protein) n/a n/a Location (UCSC) Chr X: 73.79 – 73.83 Mb n/a PubMed search n/a Wikidata View/Edit Human Simplified flowchart of Tsix's role in Xist gene function Tsix is a non-coding RNA gene that is antisense to the Xist RNA. Tsix binds Xist during X chromosome inactivation. The name Tsix comes from the reverse of ...
Additionally, 10-25% of human X chromosome genes, [12] and 3-7% of mouse X chromosome genes [13] outside of the PARs show weak expression from the inactive X chromosome. Random X-inactivation demands that the cell can determine if it contains more than one active X-chromosome before acting to silence any extraneous X-chromosome(s).