inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation

id: GO:0060820
name: inactivation of X chromosome by heterochromatin formation
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 by the mechanism of heterochromatin formation.

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