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

DOI10.1142/S140292510900008XzbMATH Open1166.92307arXiv0801.3435OpenAlexW1556050106MaRDI QIDQ3636331FDOQ3636331

Giuseppe Gaeta

Publication date: 30 June 2009

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

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.

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)

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