Sex bias
A Genetic Investigation of Sex Bias in the Prevalence of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
... The high genetic correlation and lack of difference in poly- genic burden between male and female ADHD cases support combining GWAS data from both sexes in ADHD meta-analyses and further suggest that current clinical ...
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Hypothesis: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms (Hypothalamus-Growth Hormone-STAT5 Axis) Contribute to Sex Bias in Pulmonary Hypertension
... on sex bias in rodent-based PH models, including after administration of steroid sex hormones (for example, E2, 2-ME or testosterone) and/or go- nadectomy, have focused on direct ef- fects of steroid ...
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Sexual dimorphism of miRNA expression: a new perspective in understanding the sex bias of autoimmune diseases
... of sex bias in autoimmune diseases is complex and potentially involves sex chromosomes, sex hormones, and sex-specific gene regulation in response to internal and external ...marked ...
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Autosomal Admixture Levels Are Informative About Sex Bias in Admixed Populations
... Autosomal DNA, with its multitude of independent loci, potentially provides more information about the complex histories of hybrid populations, and the autosomal genome might be less susceptible to locus-specific ...
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Where there is a will: Fertility behavior and sex bias in large families
... the sex ratio for children under six years of age is 927 girls per thousand boys, one of the largest differences in survival outcomes in the ...a sex bias both in labor market participation as well ...
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Sex bias in autism spectrum disorder in neurofibromatosis type 1
... autosomal dominant single-gene disorder with an esti- mated birth incidence of 1 in 2700 [17]. Population- and clinical-based studies using gold standard diagnostic as- certainment [18, 19] have demonstrated a prevalence ...
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Investigation of sex differences in the expression of RORA and its transcriptional targets in the brain as a potential contributor to the sex bias in autism
... and sex hormones led us to propose a model in which RORA deficiency may lead to an elevation of tes- tosterone and depletion of estradiol through suppression of CYP19A1 ...the sex bias in ASD in ...
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Sex bias in basic and preclinical age-related hearing loss research
... discussing sex-based results. Compared to the previous sex bias study on noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), this study finds a lower proportion of studies using males only at 34% (compared to 61%) ...
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Androgen mediated sex bias impairs efficiency of leukotriene biosynthesis inhibitors in males
... although sex differences in pharmacokinetics of MK886 in mice were not ...partial sex bias, indicating that additional mechanisms such as AA supply by cPLA 2 , its binding to FLAP, and transfer to ...
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Sex bias in tuberculosis in the developing world
... of sex bias in TB are predominantly undertaken in LMIC, suggest there is an impact of cultural and social ...that sex was not a risk factor for ...
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An assessment of sex bias in neurodevelopmental disorders
... a sex bias skewed towards boys, girls are more likely to be diagnosed when they have additional comorbid ...the sex difference in the presence of comorbid features also varied across individuals ...
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A human-mouse conserved sex bias in amygdala gene expression related to circadian clock and energy metabolism
... top sex-biased gene family across species, the species-specific ortholo- gous genes were not necessarily and systematically the same, but very close functionally (Figure ...the sex-biased mitochondria ...
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<p>Temporal Trends of Sex Disparity in Incidence and Survival of Colorectal Cancer: Variations by Anatomical Site and Age at Diagnosis</p>
... One weakness of this study was the lack of information on known confounding factors such as alcohol consumption, dietary data as well as screening. Meanwhile, being an ecolo- gical study, it is not possible to ...
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Zhang, Zhi (2006): Molecular evolution of sex-biased genes in Drosophila. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... A nested ANOVA test was also performed over all four replicates (including dye swaps and biological replicates) to classify genes as male-, female-, and nonsex-biased in their expression. The numbers of false negative ...
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Evolutionary and developmental dynamics of sex biased gene expression in common frogs with proto Y chromosomes
... of sex-biased genes at G43 ...show sex-biased expression (FDR = ...strongest sex bias in gene expression ...of sex bias already at earlier stages: in Drosophila, for instance, ...
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... unknown variables. Randomization schemes are also used in the (retrospective) review of comparative imaging sets to reduce reader- order bias. It is important to recognize, however, that because randomization ...
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Causal diagrams, information bias, and thought bias
... DAG A in Figure 4 shows confounding by Z. Consider, for instance, a study of the effect of dreaming status (A) on growth hormone level (V), assuming that sleep stage (Z) is a cause of both. In that case, it would be ...
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Volume 25 - Article 5 | Pages 173–214
... of bias, of the LM method stems from the cancellation in MFE of errors across age, years in the forecasting period, and country (if ...to bias is mainly an artefact of averaging over one-step-ahead errors ...
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Causes of spatial variation in parasite and pathogen pressure in insects
... Animals are host to a number of parasites and pathogens, which play an important role in shaping the ecology and evolution of their host. Ecologically, mortality effects are such that parasitism and pathogens can be ...
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Exploring Process Dissociation as a Tool for Investigating Discrimination in Hiring Situations
... The unexpected results were that differential relationships were only found for males, and many relationships did not turn out as hypothesized. Looking at the effect of participant gender, old-fashioned and benevolent ...
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