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Random inactivation of one or other of the X chromosomes in female eutherians could have evolved from an ancestral paternal X inactivation, which has been retained in marsupials.
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COOPER, D. Directed Genetic Change Model for X Chromosome Inactivation in Eutherian Mammals. Nature 230, 292–294 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230292a0
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