SCIALDONE, ANTONIO; NICODEMI, MARIO - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 13 (2010) 03, pp. 367-376
We present statistical mechanics models to understand the physical and molecular mechanisms of X-Chromosome Inactivation (XCI), the process whereby a female mammal cell inactivates one of its two X-chromosomes. During XCI, X-chromosomes undergo a series of complex regulatory processes. At the...