X-chromosome inactivation draws L1 mutagenesis to the human X chromosome - science.org

What the report says

X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) enables gene dosage compensation in XX eutherians. Long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) retrotransposons are unusually abundant on the human X chromosome and are hypothesized to facilitate XCI. Here, we used long-...