Circulating testosterone as the hormonal basis of sex differences in athletic performance

DJ Handelsman, AL Hirschberg, S Bermon - Endocrine reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Elite athletic competitions have separate male and female events due to men's physical
advantages in strength, speed, and endurance so that a protected female category with …

Evaluating intrinsic and non-intrinsic cancer risk factors

S Wu, W Zhu, P Thompson, YA Hannun - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Discriminating the contribution of unmodifiable random intrinsic DNA replication errors ('bad
luck') to cancer development from those of other factors is critical for understanding cancer in …

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 …

A Rodriguez-Martinez, B Zhou, MK Sophiea… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and
adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean …

CRISPR ethics: moral considerations for applications of a powerful tool

C Brokowski, M Adli - Journal of molecular biology, 2019 - Elsevier
With the emergence of CRISPR technology, targeted editing of a wide variety of genomes is
no longer an abstract hypothetical, but occurs regularly. As application areas of CRISPR are …

New literacy challenge for the twenty-first century: genetic knowledge is poor even among well educated

R Chapman, M Likhanov, F Selita, I Zakharov… - Journal of community …, 2019 - Springer
We live in an age of rapidly advancing genetic research. This research is generating new
knowledge that has implications for personal health and well-being. The present study …

Genetic and environmental influences on human behavioral differences

M McGue, TJ Bouchard Jr - Annual review of neuroscience, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Human behavioral genetic research aimed at characterizing the existence and
nature of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in cognitive ability …

Obesity and eating behavior from the perspective of twin and genetic research

K Silventoinen, H Konttinen - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Obesity has dramatically increased during the last decades and is currently one of the most
serious global health problems. We present a hypothesis that obesity is a neuro-behavioral …

[PDF][PDF] Screening human embryos for polygenic traits has limited utility

E Karavani, O Zuk, D Zeevi, N Barzilai, NC Stefanis… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The increasing proportion of variance in human complex traits explained by polygenic
scores, along with progress in preimplantation genetic diagnosis, suggests the possibility of …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrigenomics in the context of evolution

C Carlberg - Redox Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Nutrigenomics describes the interaction between nutrients and our genome. Since the origin
of our species most of these nutrient-gene communication pathways have not changed …

Early childhood linear growth faltering in low-income and middle-income countries as a whole-population condition: analysis of 179 Demographic and Health Surveys …

DE Roth, A Krishna, M Leung, J Shi… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The causes of early childhood linear growth faltering (known as stunting) in low-
income and middle-income countries remain inadequately understood. We aimed to …