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Mary Frances Lyon (1925–2014)

2015; Cell Press; Volume: 160; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.cell.2015.01.039

1097-4172

Elizabeth Fisher, Jo Peters,

Birth, Development, and Health

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 also made fundamental contributions to the entire field of genetics.