dosage compensation, by hyperactivation of X chromosome

id: GO:0009047
name: dosage compensation, by hyperactivation of X chromosome
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome:autosome ratios between sexes by a global hyperactivation of all, or most of, the genes on the X-chromosome in the heterogametic sex, leading to a two-fold increase in gene expression from this chromosome. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.

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