Expression data from human triploid and diploid fibroblast cell cultures
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ABSTRACT: Dosage compensation restores a balanced network of gene expression between autosomes and sex chromosomes in males (XY) and females (XX). In mammals, this is achieved by doubling the expression of X-linked genes in both sexes, together with X inactivation in females. X up-regulation may be controlled by DNA sequence based and/or epigenetic mechanisms that double the X output potentially in response to an autosomal counting factor. Human triploids with either one or two active X chromosomes (Xa) provide a mean to test X chromosome expression in the presence of three sets of autosomes, which will help understand the underlying mechanisms of X up-regulation. We measured whole genome gene expression in human triploid cell cultures with either one or two active X. We found that overall X-linked gene expression is not tripled in the presence of three sets of autosomes. However, in triploid cells with a single active X chromosome, its expression is adjusted upward, presumably by an epigenetic mechanism that senses the active X-autosome ratio.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE18877 | GEO | 2009/11/06
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA121135
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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