5MECPG EPIGENETIC MARKS NEIGHBORING A PRIMATE-CONSERVED CORE PROMOTER SHORT TANDEM REPEAT INDICATE X-CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION.

5meCpG epigenetic marks neighboring a primate-conserved core promoter short tandem repeat indicate X-chromosome inactivation.

X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the epigenetic transcriptional silencing of an X-chromosome during the early stages of embryonic development in female eutherian mammals.XCI assures monoallelic expression in each cell and compensation for dosage-sensitive X-linked genes between females (XX) and males (XY).DNA methylation at the carbon-5 position

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