Are females more variable than males in gene expression? Meta-analysis of microarray datasets

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Itoh, Yuichiro ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Sex bias; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945973857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-015-0036-8     Document Type: Article

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