Mary Lyon: quiet battler
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Mary Lyon: quiet battler
Mary Lyon discovered X-inactivation — the process that enables female mammals to avoid genetic overdose by randomly switching off one X chromosome in each of their cells — some 40 years ago. In the past 20 years, she has received six awards in recognition of this discovery, including the recently announced Wolf Prize in medicine, worth US$ 100,000. At 71, Lyon will use the award to continue her...
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Mary Frances Lyon Mary Lyon was one of the most notable geneticists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her discovery of X inactivation, an early example of epigenetic gene regulation, but she alsomade fundamental contributions to the entire field of genetics. Mary was born on May 15, 1925 in Norwich, in the rural east of the United Kingdom. She was the first child of Clifford James Lyon, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00129-1