Nonhormonal explanations for sex discrepancy in human illness: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1193, Issue , 2010, Pages 22-24

  Lockshin, Michael D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune illness; Sex discrepancy

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED KINASE 1; INTERLEUKIN 13 RECEPTOR ALPHA2; SEX HORMONE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

ALLERGY; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC RISK; GENOME IMPRINTING; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; MICROCHIMERISM; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 77951213280     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05293.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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