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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Julien Bauer
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13520 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
BMC genomics 20100201
<h4>Background</h4>X monosomic mice (39,XO) have a remarkably mild phenotype when compared to women with Turner syndrome (45,XO). The generally accepted hypothesis to explain this discrepancy is that the number of genes on the mouse X chromosome which escape X inactivation, and thus are expressed at higher levels in females, is very small. However this hypothesis has never been tested and only a small number of genes have been assayed for their X-inactivation status in the mouse. We performed a ...[more]