Nicodemi and Prisco recently proposed a model for X-chromosome inactivation in mammals, explaining this phenomenon in terms of a spontaneous symmetry-breaking mechanism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 108104]. Here we provide a mean-field version of their model.

A mean-field version of the Ssb model for X-chromosome inactivation / G. Gaeta. - In: JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 1402-9251. - 16:1(2009), pp. 93-103.

A mean-field version of the Ssb model for X-chromosome inactivation

G. Gaeta
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2009

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Nicodemi and Prisco recently proposed a model for X-chromosome inactivation in mammals, explaining this phenomenon in terms of a spontaneous symmetry-breaking mechanism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 108104]. Here we provide a mean-field version of their model.
Mean-field theory; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; X-chromosome inactivation
Settore MAT/07 - Fisica Matematica
2009
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