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Localization of the X inactivation centre on the human X chromosome in Xq13. 1991

C J Brown, and R G Lafreniere, and V E Powers, and G Sebastio, and A Ballabio, and A L Pettigrew, and D H Ledbetter, and E Levy, and I W Craig, and H F Willard
Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305.

X-chromosome inactivation results in the strictly cis-limited inactivation of many but not all genes on one of the two X chromosomes during early development in somatic cells of mammalian females. One feature of virtually all models of X inactivation is the existence of an X-inactivation centre (XIC) required in cis for inactivation to occur. This concept predicts that all structurally abnormal X chromosomes capable of being inactivated have in common a defineable region of the X chromosome. Here we report an analysis of several such rearranged human X chromosomes and define a minimal region of overlap. The results are consistent with models invoking a single XIC and provide a molecular foothold for cloning and analysing the XIC region. One of the markers that defines this region is the XIST gene, which is expressed specifically from inactive, but not active, X chromosomes. The localization of the XIST gene to the XIC region on the human X chromosome implicates XIST in some aspect of X inactivation.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002874 Chromosome Mapping Any method used for determining the location of and relative distances between genes on a chromosome. Gene Mapping,Linkage Mapping,Genome Mapping,Chromosome Mappings,Gene Mappings,Genome Mappings,Linkage Mappings,Mapping, Chromosome,Mapping, Gene,Mapping, Genome,Mapping, Linkage,Mappings, Chromosome,Mappings, Gene,Mappings, Genome,Mappings, Linkage
D004303 Dosage Compensation, Genetic Genetic mechanisms that allow GENES to be expressed at a similar level irrespective of their GENE DOSAGE. This term is usually used in discussing genes that lie on the SEX CHROMOSOMES. Because the sex chromosomes are only partially homologous, there is a different copy number, i.e., dosage, of these genes in males vs. females. In DROSOPHILA, dosage compensation is accomplished by hypertranscription of genes located on the X CHROMOSOME. In mammals, dosage compensation of X chromosome genes is accomplished by random X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION of one of the two X chromosomes in the female. Dosage Compensation (Genetics),Gene Dosage Compensation,Hypertranscription, X-Chromosome,X-Chromosome Hypertranscription,Compensation, Dosage (Genetics),Compensation, Gene Dosage,Compensation, Genetic Dosage,Dosage Compensation, Gene,Gene Dosage Compensations,Genetic Dosage Compensation,Genetic Dosage Compensations,Hypertranscription, X Chromosome,X Chromosome Hypertranscription
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014960 X Chromosome The female sex chromosome, being the differential sex chromosome carried by half the male gametes and all female gametes in human and other male-heterogametic species. Chromosome, X,Chromosomes, X,X Chromosomes
D015321 Gene Rearrangement The ordered rearrangement of gene regions by DNA recombination such as that which occurs normally during development. DNA Rearrangement,DNA Rearrangements,Gene Rearrangements,Rearrangement, DNA,Rearrangement, Gene,Rearrangements, DNA,Rearrangements, Gene

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