Eighty percent of patients with autoimmune diseases are female. These diseases are one of the top 10 leading causes of death for women under 65, and cases are increasing annually worldwide. There is ...
Autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), are more common in women than men, and scientists are still trying to figure out why. One reason may be related to the number of X ...
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Unexpected X chromosome findings challenge assumptions about sex differences in human disease
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women. Their insights advance our understanding of our most enigmatic chromosome, the ...
Somewhere between 24 and 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, a condition in which the immune system attacks our own tissues. As many as 4 out of 5 of those people are women. Rheumatoid ...
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women. Their insights advance our understanding of our most enigmatic chromosome, the ...
X-chromosome inactivation varies across different areas of brains. Here, fluorescent imaging data from a mouse reveal where the father’s X chromosome is most active (white) and least active (blue). A ...
Female mammals have a higher risk of developing autoimmune conditions such as lupus because extra copies of genes that are supposed to be permanently turned off get reactivated as they grow older, a ...
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