Genetic mechanisms leading to sex differences across common diseases and anthropometric traits

Genetics

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 979-992

  Traglia, Michela ^a   Bseiso, Dina ^a   Gusev, Alexander ^b,c   Adviento, Brigid ^a   Park, Daniel S ^b   Mefford, Joel A ^d   Zaitlen, Noah ^a   Weiss, Lauren A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene sex interactions; Heritability; Hormone responsive genes; Sex differences; Sex heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 85018948422     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.193623     Document Type: Article

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