dosage compensation, by hypoactivation of X chromosome

id: GO:0042464
name: dosage compensation, by hypoactivation of X chromosome
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Compensating for the two-fold variation in X:autosome chromosome ratios between sexes by an inactivation of a proportion of genes on both of the X chromosomes of the XX sex, leading to a decrease, of half, of the levels of gene expression from these chromosomes. An example of this process is found in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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