Dosage compensation
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Dosage compensation is a genetic regulatory mechanism which operates to equalize the phenotypic expression of characteristics determined by genes on the X chromosome so that they are equally expressed in the human XY male and the XX female. Dosage compensation also occurs in other organisms like the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
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