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Females are mosaics

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'Females are Mosaics' focuses on the X chromosome as a key to female development and the role of X-related factors in the etiology of sex differences in human disease.

כותר Females are mosaics : X inactivation and sex differences in disease / Barbara R. Migeon. [electronic resource]
כותרים נוספים X inactivation and sex differences in disease
מהדורה 1st ed.
מוציא לאור Oxford
Oxford University Press
שנה 2023
הערות Formerly CIP.
Previously issued in print: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. BACKGROUND -- Chapter 1 Sex Differences in Disease -- 1.1. Males More Vulnerable at Every Age -- 1.2. Vulnerability of Males Leads to Sex-Specific Disease -- 1.3. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 2 Evolution of the Human Sex Chromosomes and a Portrait of the Human X -- 2.1. Chromosomal Basis of Sex Determination -- 2.2. The Human Sex Chromosomes Evolved from Reptilian Autosomes -- 2.3. Degeneration of the Y Chromosome -- 2.4. Ohno's Law and the Conservation of the Original X -- 2.5. Residual Homology and the Pseudoautosomal Regions -- 2.6. Genetic Portrait of the Human X -- 2.7. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 3 X Chromosome Dosage Compensation: An Overview -- 3.1. X Chromosome Dosage Compensation -- 3.2. Heterochromatin and Chromosome Silencing -- 3.3. Role in Sex Determination -- 3.4. Mechanisms of Dosage Compensation in Other Organisms -- 3.5. Mechanisms of Dosage Compensation in Mammals -- 3.6. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 4 The Discovery of X Chromosome Inactivation -- 4.1. The Lyon Hypothesis -- 4.2. General Scheme of Mammalian Dosage Compensation -- 4.3. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 5 Experimental Models for X Inactivation Studies -- 5.1. Spontaneous Human Mutations that Interfere with Inactivation -- 5.2. X-Linked Protein Variants Distinguish Parental Origin of X Chromosomes -- 5.3. Characterizing the Inactive X in Human Cell Cultures and Clones -- 5.4. Mouse-Human Hybrids Separate Inactive from Active X -- 5.5. Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells for Manipulating the Early Steps in X Inactivation -- 5.6. Transgenic Mice as a Functional Assay -- 5.7. Assays for X Inactivation Patterns in Heterozygotes -- 5.8. Summary and Speculations -- PART II. THEMES AND VARIATIONS OF X INACTIVATION -- Chapter 6 Theme 1: The Initial Steps-Creating the Active and Inactive X.
6.1. Characteristics of the Inactive X Chromosome -- 6.2. Time of Initiation in the Embryo -- 6.3. Cis Inactivation -- 6.4. The Master Control Region: XIC and Xist -- 6.5. Silencing the Inactive X Chromosome -- 6.6. Choosing the Active X Chromosome -- 6.7. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 7 Theme 2: Subsequent Steps-Spreading and Maintaining Inactivation -- 7.1. Spreading Inactivation by Modifying Chromatin -- 7.2. Maintaining Inactivation by DNA Methylation of CpG Islands -- 7.3. Escape from Inactivation -- 7.4. Transient X Inactivation in Germ Cells -- 7.5. Induced X Reactivation in Placental Cells -- 7.6. Role of DNA Replication in X Inactivation -- 7. 7. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 8 Variations 1: Stability of the Inactive X -- 8.1. Variations on the Themes of X Inactivation -- 8.2. Divergence in the Physical Map -- 8.3. Stability of X Inactivation -- 8.4. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 9 Variations 2: Choice of Active X -- 9.1. Primary Nonrandom X Inactivation -- 9.2. Paternal X Inactivation -- 9.3. Relationship of Paternal X Inactivation to Genomic Imprinting -- 9.4. Does Antisense Transcription Have a Role? -- 9.5. Evolution and Tinkering -- 9.6. Effect of Inactivation Timing -- 9.7. Summary and Speculations -- PART III. MEDICAL CONSEQUENCE OF X INACTIVATION -- Chapter 10 The Single Active X -- 10.1. Coping with a Monosomy X -- 10.2. Sex Differences in Susceptibility to Disease -- 10.3. Viability of Turner Syndrome, Klinefelter Syndrome, and X Chromosome Aneuploidy -- 10.4. X Deletions, Ring X Chromosomes, X Duplications, and Functional Disomy -- 10.5. X/Autosome Translocations and Spreading of Inactivation -- 10.6. Polyploidy and the Choice of Active X -- 10.7. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 11 Mosaicism -- 11.1. The X-Linked Phenotype Is Dominant at the Cellular Level -- 11.2. Females Are Mosaics.
11.3. Interaction between Mosaic Cell Populations -- 11.4. Skewing of X Inactivation Patterns -- 11.5. Effect of X Inactivation on Clinical Phenotype -- 11.6. "Manifesting" Heterozygotes -- 11.7. Summary and Speculations -- Chapter 12 Determinants of Female Phenotypes -- 12.1. The Dynamic Effect of Interacting Cell Populations on the Health of Females -- 12.2. The Effect of X Inactivation on Normal Female Phenotype and Cell Diversity -- 12.3. Epilogue -- Appendix A: Descriptions of Model X-linked and Other Relevant Diseases -- Appendix B: Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy, Polyploidy, and Parthenogenetic Conceptuses -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- X -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
סדרה Oxford scholarship online
היקף החומר 1 online resource (xi, 271 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. (some col.)
שפה אנגלית
מספר מערכת 997010714406105171
תצוגת MARC

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