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1: Genome Biol. 2007;8(2):204.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Decoding dosage compensation.

Deng X, Disteche CM.

Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

How the mechanisms of dosage compensation distinguish the sex chromosomes from the autosomes has been something of a mystery. A recent study in Caenorhabditis elegans has identified clusters of two common DNA motifs as a cis-acting code for the recruitment of the DCC, the protein complex that mediates dosage compensation.

PMID: 17328790 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1852422

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