ImmGen report: sexual dimorphism in the immune system transcriptome

Nature Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Gal Oz, Shani Talia ^a   Maier, Barbara ^b   Yoshida, Hideyuki ^c,d   Seddu, Kumba ^c   Elbaz, Nitzan ^a   Czysz, Charles ^e   Zuk, Or ^f   Stranger, Barbara E ^e,g   Ner Gaon, Hadas ^a   Shay, Tal ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION LEVEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; C57BL MOUSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; SEX FACTOR; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERFERONS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONOCYTES; RNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85072536139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12348-6     Document Type: Article

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