Paircounting

Huy Q Nguyen; S Dean Lee; C-Ting Wu

doi:10.1016/j.tig.2019.07.010

Paircounting

Trends Genet. 2019 Nov;35(11):787-790. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.07.010. Epub 2019 Sep 12.

Authors

Huy Q Nguyen¹, S Dean Lee¹, C-Ting Wu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

X inactivation presents two longstanding puzzles: the counting and choice of X chromosomes. Here, we consider counting and choice in the context of pairing, both of the X and of the autosomes.

Keywords: X inactivation; X, autosomes; choice; counting; pairing.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Animals
Chromosome Pairing*
Chromosomes*
Humans
Mammals / genetics
Mice
Models, Genetic
X Chromosome Inactivation*
X Chromosome*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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