Considering how biological sex impacts immune responses and COVID-19 outcomes

EP Scully, J Haverfield, RL Ursin… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A male bias in mortality has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic, which is consistent with
the pathogenesis of other viral infections. Biological sex differences may manifest …

Sex difference of gut microbiota

N Kim - Sex/gender-specific medicine in the gastrointestinal …, 2022 - Springer
The factors that influence the composition of the gut microbiome are diet, ethnicity,
antibiotics, stress, psychological factors, maternal health during pregnancy, the method of …

Resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in a Reelin-COLBOS heterozygous man

F Lopera, C Marino, AS Chandrahas, M O'Hare… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
We characterized the world's second case with ascertained extreme resilience to autosomal
dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD). Side-by-side comparisons of this male case and the …

[PDF][PDF] Sex differences in gene expression and regulatory networks across 29 human tissues

CM Lopes-Ramos, CY Chen, ML Kuijjer, JN Paulson… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Sex differences manifest in many diseases and may drive sex-specific therapeutic
responses. To understand the molecular basis of sex differences, we evaluated sex-biased …

Sex differences in genetic architecture in the UK Biobank

E Bernabeu, O Canela-Xandri, K Rawlik, A Talenti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Males and females present differences in complex traits and in the risk of a wide array of
diseases. Genotype by sex (GxS) interactions are thought to account for some of these …

Sex and gender differences in risk, pathophysiology and complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus

A Kautzky-Willer, J Harreiter, G Pacini - Endocrine reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The steep rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and associated complications go along
with mounting evidence of clinically important sex and gender differences. T2DM is more …

Sex-dimorphic and age-dependent organization of 24-hour gene expression rhythms in humans

L Talamanca, C Gobet, F Naef - Science, 2023 - science.org
The circadian clock modulates human physiology. However, the organization of tissue-
specific gene expression rhythms and how these depend on age and sex is not defined in …

Androgen sensitivity gateway to COVID‐19 disease severity

CG Wambier, A Goren, S Vaño‐Galván… - Drug development …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this communication, we present arguments for androgen sensitivity as a likely determinant
of COVID‐19 disease severity. The androgen sensitivity model explains why males are more …

A hierarchical causal taxonomy of psychopathology across the life span.

BB Lahey, RF Krueger, PJ Rathouz… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

Sex differences in GBM revealed by analysis of patient imaging, transcriptome, and survival data

W Yang, NM Warrington, SJ Taylor… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Sex differences in the incidence and outcome of human disease are broadly recognized but,
in most cases, not sufficiently understood to enable sex-specific approaches to treatment …