GO:0009048

dosage compensation by 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 one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex. [GOC:jl, ISBN:0140512888, PMID:11498577]
Evidence Code: 
TAS