X inactivation
it is a heritable change in gene function without a change in the sequence of the DNA.
X inactivation is not restricted to females. It also occurs in males with Klinefelter syndrome who have more than one X chromosome.
The phenomenon of X inactivation is also called lyonization after the English geneticist Mary Lyon (1925-) who first described it.
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