What if the presence of two X chromosomes confers functional specificities on female cells and contributes to the different susceptibilites of men and women to certain diseases? One of the X chromosomes is randomly silenced in each female cell from the embryonic stage, theoretically making the sexes equal. This silencing of the X chromosome is a unique epigenetic process, affecting an entire chromosome and resulting in mosaic expression of X-linked genes throughout the body. However, some genes escape this process and X-inactivation appears to be somewhat labile in certain cell types. What are the physiological implications of these observations? This question is beginning to be explored, particularly in the immune and nervous systems, where several pathologies have sexual bias.
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