Sentences with phrase «sex differences found»

The sex differences found here are relative, not exclusive, and future research should attend to within - sex variability as well.

Given that the brain has potential for plasticity, many researchers question whether sex differences found in neuroimaging studies are because of biologically set, universal sex differences, or due to the influence of environmental or cultural factors on brain development (Fine, 2013).

Briscoe and her colleagues were astonished by the sex differences found in the Heliconius erato species; however, it remains to be determined why such differences would evolve in the first place.

Not exact matches

You can check out her findings in her book, Sex Difference in Christian Theology: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God.

Substantial research has found no biologically - based differences between the sexes in sensitivity to infants (for review, see Lamb et al, 1987) or in capacity to provide intimate care (for review see, Parke, 2008).

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Studies that formally tested for interaction found little evidence of sex differences in the association between breastfeeding and systolic or diastolic blood pressure (20, 43).

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

The sex - specific differences — the smaller hippocampus, the presence of fewer nerve cells, the existence of immune system macrophages in places they shouldn't be — were also found in adulthood.

The finding that these neurons are present in the brains of male but not female flies indicates that this sex difference in aggressive behavior is genetically based.

That's according to Misao Fukuda at the M&K Health Institute in Hyogo, Japan, and colleagues, who found subtle differences in sex ratios of children depending on when a mother entered menarche.

The findings, published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the strongest evidence to date in support of the notion that sex chromosomes acting on single cells play a role in differences between male and female brains.

The teams are yet to identify every gene contained within this supergene region, but have so far found a gene involved in colouring, which could explain differences in plumage, as well as genes involved in processing sex hormones.

The provocative findings, to appear in tomorrow's issue of Nature, are the first indication that a cognitive difference between the sexes might be inherited.

To definitively prove there is a problem, Bjursten says scientists would have to find a plausible biological mechanism to explain these differences — and then run two randomized controlled trials designed to look at whether the donor's sex and pregnancy history affect the recipient.

As a point of comparison, the size of the shift was statistically comparable to the difference researchers have found between men's and women's self - reported number of heterosexual sex partners (with men reporting more sex partners).

A new study from the University of Colorado Denver finds that scientists agree that children of same - sex parents experience «no difference» on a range of social and behavioral outcomes compared to children of heterosexual or single parents.

The study, published online today in Biology Letters, didn't set out to find sex differences.

George Washington University (GW) researcher Valerie Hu, Ph.D., has found an important sex - dependent difference in the level of RORA protein in brain tissues of males and females.

The findings were surprising to the group, as no other animal has been found to have a sex - linked difference in the make - up of its eye that depends on the suppression of an opsin gene.

«Whenever you find sex differences, you can usually find an evolutionary reason as to why these things occur,» he says.

Significant sex differences were also found for rates of scratching and mean gray matter intensity values in certain areas of the brain.

Researchers from the MIND Institute at University of California, Davis, USA, found sex differences in children with autism when looking at the organization of fibers in the corpus callosum, the largest bundle of nerve fibers in the brain.2

It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood disorders use prescription opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.

The findings show the importance of addressing sex - specific differences when studying evolution, the researchers said.

In another study, researchers from the George Washington University, USA, found sex differences in the levels of the gene «RORA» in the brain.

The researchers also found evidence that the protective effect of 10398G is stronger in women than in men — hinting at a possible explanation for the sex difference doctors have seen.

Although the new study is based on a very large data set and found a reliable sex difference in competitiveness, the researchers acknowledged there is much individual variability.

«As in two of our previous studies, we found clear sex differences in the jealousy responses among those who had to choose which aspect of infidelity was most upsetting to them.

We also found similar sex differences when we used a continuous measure paradigm.

Looking more closely, the researchers found differences in volume between the sexes were located in several regions.

This study is distinctive because the researchers found dramatic differences in the percentage of female sexual and asexual snails (using males» presence as a proxy) and parasite prevalence between sites as close as two football fields apart, «suggesting that these evolutionary links between sex and parasites can operate at a remarkably small scale,» Neiman says.

The IOM report, supported by the Society for Women's Health Research, found that sex differences important to health and human disease occur at conception and throughout the life span, affecting behavior, perception, and health.

In both cases, gastric emptying was found to be slower in women than in men, although the etiology of this sex difference remains to be clarified (214).

Sex - specific differences in the ANKK1 (rs1800497) polymorphism of dopamine receptor D2 in humans were reported with increased risk for T2DM in women, which could not be found in men (193).

Sex - specific differences were found in 20 out of 49 genetic loci, which are involved in regulatory functions of adipose and insulin biology.

Sex differences were found in several studies with controversial results, regarding the risk of T2DM for subjects born with low birth weight (LBW) or high birth weight.

The findings add to our understanding of the factors influencing sex differences, and how that may affect complex diseases.

Surprisingly, we found that the determinant for this wing size difference is located in the non-coding region between two known transcription factors, the master sex determining gene doublesex and neurogenesis regulator prospero.

Here we focus our attention on the forewing, although more subtle differences in the hindwing are also found between the species and sexes.

Furthermore, given that Morton's procedure for estimating sex from skulls almost certainly depended heavily on size (as noted by Gould, and as even modern methods do), it is entirely unsurprising to find a notable difference in size between «males» and «females.»

The temperature - difference mechanism for sex determination found in alligators and turtles depends on eggs being left in unattended nests, typically sun - warmed, with clutches large enough to have a marked temperature gradient across them.

The researchers found no differences between those with same - sex or heterosexual parents.

In previous research involving normal pregnancies, Roberts» team found sex differences in the expression of 142 genes in the placenta.

«There's been some speculation about whether teenagers were substituting oral or anal sex for vaginal sex and I found that wasn't so,» says Rosenbaum, «but I did uphold a previous finding that they are less likely to use birth control and drastically less likely in fact to use condoms — it's a ten percentage point difference.»

We ran a number of statistical tests, accounting for body mass, lean body mass, age, sex and fat mass, and still found no difference in daily energy expenditure between the Hadza and their Western counterparts.

Sex differences between our findings and those of prior studies may have been due to the overall healthy sample of our study population, but could also have been due to the race distribution and relatively small size of our sample.

No significant differences by sex and cancer - site were found.

However, analysing the data for men and women separately, an interesting difference emerged: they found that for women only, sexual disgust sensitivity was directly insignificant; only sociosexuality directly predicted Tinder use for casual sex.

Joel Simkhai, who founded Grindr and Blendr, says the main difference between the two apps is that the straight version is less focused on casual sex.