dosage compensation

id: GO:0007549
name: dosage compensation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Compensating for the two-fold variation in X:autosome chromosome ratios between sexes by a global activation or inactivation of all, or most of, genes on one or both of the X chromosomes.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0009047dosage compensation, by hyperactivation of X chromosome
GO:0009048dosage compensation, by inactivation of X chromosome
GO:0042464dosage compensation, by hypoactivation of X chromosome

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0040029regulation of gene expression, epigenetic