"X Chromosome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The female sex chromosome, being the differential sex chromosome carried by half the male gametes and all female gametes in human and other male-heterogametic species.
| Descriptor ID |
D014960
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.187.865.982 G05.360.162.865.982
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| Concept/Terms |
X Chromosome- X Chromosome
- Chromosome, X
- Chromosomes, X
- X Chromosomes
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "X Chromosome" by people in Profiles.
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Induction and inhibition of Drosophila X chromosome gene expression are both impeded by the dosage compensation complex. G3 (Bethesda). 2022 08 25; 12(9).
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Evolution of Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes: A Novel Alternative Paradigm. Bioessays. 2020 09; 42(9):e1900212.
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The X chromosome of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, is homologous to a fly X chromosome despite 400 million years divergence. BMC Biol. 2019 12 05; 17(1):100.
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The house fly Y Chromosome is young and minimally differentiated from its ancient X Chromosome partner. Genome Res. 2017 08; 27(8):1417-1426.
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siRNAs from an X-linked satellite repeat promote X-chromosome recognition in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Nov 18; 111(46):16460-5.