The importance of having two X chromosomes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1688, 2016, Pages

  Arnold, Arthur P ^a   Reue, Karen ^a,b   Eghbali, Mansoureh ^b   Vilain, Eric ^b   Chen, Xuqi ^a   Ghahramani, Negar ^a,b   Itoh, Yuichiro ^a   Li, Jingyuan ^b   Link, Jenny C ^a,b   Ngun, Tuck ^a,b   Williams Burris, Shayna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischaemia; Klinefelter; Obesity; Sex differences; Sexual differentiation; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; INJURY; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; RODENT; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

MUS;

SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; SEX FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84956645975     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0113     Document Type: Review

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