Science news articles about 'x chromosome inactivation'

... males, via a process known as X-Chromosome Inactivation (XCI). Recent discoveries have revealed ... lead to XCI failure and cell death. Chromosome colocalization events are common in cells. A prominent ...

... mice embryonic stem cell lines are made; these ES cells have two active X ... treatment. Furthermore, our research shows that X chromosome inactivation in humans is not very different from other placental ...

... that span millions of basepairs of DNA. Nucleolar dominance occurs on a scale second only to X-chromosome inactivation, a process by which one of the two copies of the X-chromosome present in female ...

... previously associated with lung cancer and for mutations in the TP53 gene. They also analyzed the X-chromosome inactivation pattern in tumors from female patients. Based on these three analyses, the ...

... addresses this question. The authors examined 12 FNH lesions via histological approaches, X-chromosome inactivation and allelotyping assays, using 12 hepatocellular adenomas and 22 ...