establishment of chromatin silencing

id: GO:0006343
name: establishment of chromatin silencing
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The initial formation of a transcriptionally silent chromatin structure such as heterochromatin.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0035389establishment of chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette
GO:0035390establishment of chromatin silencing at telomere

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006338chromatin remodeling