«How male and female sex hormones can affect the immune system is important for understanding the molecular and cellular basis of sex differences in diseases like asthma,» says Nicola Heller, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine not involved in the study. (sciencenews.org)
The research will lead to uncovering a sizable portion of the heritable basis of complex disease that has not been explained by GWAS loci, to revealing the role of ChrX in age - related diseases, and to advancing the exploration of the sex - linked genetic basis of sex - specific aging patterns. (ellisonfoundation.org)
We investigated the genetic basis of sex - specific differences in wing size between two closely related species of Nasonia by positional cloning a major male - specific locus, wing - size1 (ws1). (journals.plos.org)