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Imagine a scenario in which prenatal testing of a human female fetus indicates that the baby will have a normal XX karyotype but is heterozygous for a mutation that inactivates the Xist promoter. Allele “Xr” represents the mutated version of the Xist promoter, and “XR” represents the normal version of the Xist promoter.
How will this mutation affect the process of X inactivation?
A. "X inactivation will still be random with both mutant and normal X chromosomes being randomly inactivated"
B. "The chromosome with the mutant Xist promoter will always be active"
C. "The chromosome with the mutant Xist promoter will always be inactivated"
D. "The normal X chromosome (no mutation in Xist) will always be active"
E. "The normal X chromosome (no mutation in Xist) will always be inactivated"
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