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4 févr. 2015 · Grande dame of mouse genetics. In 1961, Mary Frances Lyon proposed in Nature that one of the two X chromosomes in every cell of female mammals is inactivated. This, she argued, occurs to...
Mary Frances Lyon est une généticienne britannique, née à Norwich le 15 mai 1925 et morte le 25 décembre 2014. Elle est connue pour la découverte de l'inactivation du chromosome X.
Mary Frances Lyon FRS (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.
24 avr. 2024 · Mary Lyon was a central figure in twentieth-century mouse genetics. She is best known for the phenomenon that bears her name, ‘Lyonization’ or X chromosome inactivation, the process whereby one of ...
28 févr. 2015 · Geneticist who gave her name to the process of X-chromosome inactivation. Born in Norwich, UK, on May 15, 1925, she died in Drayton, UK, on Dec 25, 2014, aged 89 years. In 1961, working at what was then the MRC Radiobiology Unit (RBU) at Harwell in Oxfordshire, Mary Lyon put forward the contribution to genetics for which she is best ...
24 févr. 2015 · Mary Frances Lyon died peacefully on 25 December 2014 after enjoying a glass of sherry and her Christmas lunch. She was a small, quiet, self-effacing woman, but a giant of 20th century genetics. Mary is best known for X chromosome inactivation, the phenomenon that bears her name, “Lyonisation”.
12 févr. 2015 · 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.
