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Published online 23 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010726-4
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Shutting up the X
A gene that gags the X chromosome keeps females alive.
Female embryos partly owe their survival to a molecular gagging order. Shutting up an X chromosome is essential to female embryo growth - and a gene that maintains the silence has now been found.
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