dosage compensation by inactivation of X chromosome
Compensating for the two-fold variation in X-chromosome:autosome ratios between sexes by heterochromatin formation leading to a global inactivation of all, or most of, the genes on one of the X-chromosomes in the XX sex.
GO:0007549
sex-chromosome dosage compensation
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GO:0031507
heterochromatin formation
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Barr body formation
related
X chromosome inactivation
exact
chromosome inactivation
broad