GO:0060816

random inactivation of X chromosome

Details: 
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. [GOC:dph, GOC:sdb_2009, GOC:tb]
Evidence Code: 
IEA