random inactivation of X chromosome

id: GO:0060816
name: random 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 either the paternal or maternal X-chromosome in the XX sex.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009048dosage compensation, by inactivation of X chromosome