Females are mosaics : X inactivation and sex differences in disease / Barbara R. Migeon.

Women can be described as genetic mosaics because they have two distinctly different types of cells throughout their bodies. Unlike males, who have one X chromosome (inherited from their mother), females have two X chromosomes in every cell (one from each parent). The fathers copy works in some cell...

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Main Author: Migeon, Barbara R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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