Presumptive X-Autosome Translocation in a Cow : Preferential Inactivation of the Normal X Chromosome (original) (raw)

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THE Lyon hypothesis1 was constructed on genetical evidence derived from observations of sex-linked variegation of coat colour in the mouse. Within the framework of this hypothesis, late DNA synthesis and genetic inactivity of the same X chromosome are considered strictly related phenomena. Thus information about the chronology of DNA replication in structurally abnormal X chromosomes is relevant to the study of the genetic activity of mammalian sex chromosomes. So far, such information is available only for two mammalian species, mouse and man. In human females, structurally abnormal X chromosomes, such as deficiencies, duplication/deficiencies or rings, were found to be consistently late-replicating compared with the normal X chromosome2. The same applies to a presumptive _X_-autosome translocation3. In the mouse, two cases of _X_-autosome translocations have been studied cytogenetically, with contrasting results. In females heterozygous for Searle's translocation (T_16_H), in which part of the X chromosome is translocated on to an unidentified autosome, the sex-linked variegation is suppressed. Lyon _et al._4, by the appropriate genetic tests, showed that the translocated X was consistently active while the normal X was inactive in all cells. Ohno and Lyon5 later reported that the normal X of heterozygous females carrying the translocation showed positive heteropycnosis in 90 per cent of somatic prophases.

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  1. Department of Animal Genetics, Nutrition and Hygiene, Royal Veterinary College, Stockholm
    I. GUSTAVSSON
  2. Euratom Unit for Human Radiation and Cytogenetics, University of Pavia, Italy
    M. FRACCARO & L. TIEPOLO
  3. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm
    J. LINDSTEN

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GUSTAVSSON, I., FRACCARO, M., TIEPOLO, L. et al. Presumptive _X_-Autosome Translocation in a Cow : Preferential Inactivation of the Normal X Chromosome.Nature 218, 183–184 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218183a0

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