A Mean-Field Version of the SSB Model For X-Chromosome Inactivation

DOI10.1142/S140292510900008XMaRDI QIDQ3636331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giuseppe Gaeta

Publication date 30 June 2009

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3435

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakingmean-field theoryX-chromosome inactivation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

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

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