dosage compensation, by inactivation of X chromosome

id: GO:0009048
name: dosage compensation, by inactivation 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 inactivation of all, or most of, the genes on one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0060816random inactivation of X chromosome
GO:0060817inactivation of paternal X chromosome
GO:0060819inactivation of X chromosome by genetic imprinting
GO:0060820inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation
GO:0060821inactivation of X chromosome by DNA methylation

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0007549dosage compensation