inactivation of X chromosome by DNA methylation

id: GO:0060821
name: inactivation of X chromosome by DNA methylation
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 a mechanism of DNA methylation.

Parent Functions

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