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'As geneticists, we take for granted that female mammals have one of their two X chromosomes inactivated to achieve dosage compensation of X-linked gene expression with XY males, and that this inactive X chromosome influences the presentation of X-linked traits. However, it was a seminal single-author hypothesis paper by Mary Lyon, published in 1961, that first proposed X-inactivation and how it would affect phenotypes in female mammals.'
