Autoimmune diseases are characterized by a significant sex dimorphism, with women
showing increased susceptibility to disease. This is, at least in part, due to sex-dependent …

Many complex traits or diseases, such as infectious and autoimmune diseases, cancer,
xenobiotics exposure, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the …

Sex bias in autoimmunity : Current Opinion in Rheumatology Sex bias in autoimmunity :
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One of the two X chromosomes in females is epigenetically inactivated, thereby
compensating for the dosage difference in X‐linked genes between XX females and XY …

Growing evidence points towards the role of the long non-coding (lnc)-RNA Xist expressed
in female cells as a predominant key actor for the sex bias observed in systemic lupus …

Objective We undertook this study to examine the X chromosome complement in
participants with systemic sclerosis (SSc) as well as idiopathic inflammatory myopathies …

Rheumatic diseases affect a wide range of individuals of all ages, but the most common
diseases occur more frequently in women than in men, at ratios of up to ten women to one …

In 1988 I was invited, as an immunologist working on parasites, by the then Editor of
Parasitology Today to debate with the epidemiologist, Don Bundy, the reasons why males …

Systemic sclerosis is a rare acquired systemic disease characterised by heterogeneous
evolution and outcome. Each year novel insights into the pathogenesis, diagnosis and …

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) are chronic conditions with a striking female
predominance, frequently affecting women of childbearing age. Sex hormones and gender …