Position-effect variegation occurs when a ___________---rearrangement places a gene next to the heterochromaticregion near the centromere.

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Position-effect variegation occurs when a ___________---
rearrangement places a gene next to the heterochromatic
region near the centromere.

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Position effect variegation is a variegation that caused by the silencing of a gene in cells by its abnormal juxtaposition with heterochromatin via transposition or rearrangement. Position effect variegation is also associated with the changes in chromatin conformation.

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Position effect variegation generally occurs when a chromosomal rearrangement such as inversion, transposition, translocation, or transgene inserts, places a gene that usually found in the euchromatic environment next to the broken piece of heterochromatin

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