5meCpG epigenetic marks neighboring a primate-conserved core promoter short tandem repeat indicate X-chromosome inactivation.
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the epigenetic transcriptional silencing of an X-chromosome during the early stages of embryonic development in female eutherian mammals.XCI assures monoallelic expression in each cell and compensation for dosage-sensitive X-linked here genes between females (XX) and males (XY).DNA methylation at the carbon-5 posi