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Decoding dosage compensation

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GENOME BIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages -

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BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-204

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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.

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