Assertion: x chromosome | /r/HasProperty | silenced
Facets:
value: normally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The inactive X chromosome is silenced by it being packaged into a transcriptionally inactive structure called heterochromatin.
text: For example, molecular biologist Laura Carrel and colleagues at the Penn State College of Medicine relocated the mouse escapee Kdm5c (which also evades silencing in humans), along with flanking genes that are normally inactivated, to parts of the mouse X chromosome that are normally silenced.