X chromosome duplications affect a region of the chromosome they do not duplicate in Caenorhabditis elegans.
X chromosome duplications have been used previously to vary the dose of specific regions of the X chromosome to study dosage compensation and sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans. We show here that duplications suppress and X-linked hypomorphic mutation and elevate the level of activity of an X-linked enzyme, although these two genes are located in a region of the X chromosome that is not duplicated. The effects do not depend on the region of the X chromosome duplicated and is stronger in strains with two doses of a duplication than in strains with one dose. This is evidence for a general elevation of X-linked gene expression in strains carrying X-chromosome duplications, consistent with the hypothesis that the duplications titrate a repressor acting on many X-linked genes.
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104.
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D000110:Acetylcholinesterase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D002107:Caenorhabditis / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005260:Female; D005796:Genes; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D014960:X Chromosome
D000110:Acetylcholinesterase