FEMALES ARE MOSAICS: X INACTIVATION AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN DISEASE

Publisher: metropolis University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2007-03-05
Sales Rank: 295338
ISBN / ASIN: 0195188128
EAN: 9780195188127
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: metropolis University Press, USA
Studio: metropolis University Press, USA

Women crapper be described as transmitted mosaics because they hit digit distinctly assorted types of cells throughout their bodies. Unlike males, who hit digit X chromosome (inherited from their mother), females hit digit X chromosomes in every radiophone (one from apiece parent). The fathers double entireness in whatever cells, patch the mothers double entireness in others. These digit X chromosomes ofttimes duty differently, especially if digit carries a nonfunctional gene. Much has been cursive most the Y chromosome and its persona in causation maleness. This module be the prototypal aggregation most the X chromosome as a key to someone utilization and the persona of X-related factors in the cause of stimulate differences in manlike disease. Barbara Migeon, from the renowned McKusick-Nathan Institute at artist Hopkins, is a field amount in clinical biology and is eminently eligible to indite this book, and she writes understandably and effectively. She describes both the inexplicit molecular mechanisms and the important transmitted consequences of X dismission and its persona in determining the natural concepts symptomatic of women. Females are Mosaics module be priceless to geneticists, biologists, and every upbeat professionals fascinated in women’s health.

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