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Methylation |
Adding a methyl group to cystine or adenine (driving system behind X inactivation) |
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X inactivation |
Parts of the X chromosome are inactivated during homologous recombination by the X inactivation specific transcript |
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Imprinting |
Causes genes to be expressed in a parent of origin manner, IGF2 controls growth and development and the maternal allele is silenced |
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Transcvection |
Two alleles of a gene interact with each other during mitotic pairing |
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Bookmarking |
Transcription sites are kept open to be allowed to resume in daughter cells, may be done so by transcription factors such as GATA1 |