Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms

DA Bangasser, A Cuarenta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Epidemiological sex differences in anxiety disorders and major depression are well
characterized. Yet the circuits and mechanisms that contribute to these differences are …

Map** genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

V Trubetskoy, AF Pardiñas, T Qi, G Panagiotaropoulou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%, much of which is attributable to common risk
alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with …

Sex and gender in neurodevelopmental conditions

S Bölte, J Neufeld, PB Marschik, ZJ Williams… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Health-related conditions often differ qualitatively or quantitatively between individuals of
different birth-assigned sexes and gender identities, and/or with different gendered …

Considering how biological sex impacts immune responses and COVID-19 outcomes

EP Scully, J Haverfield, RL Ursin… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A male bias in mortality has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic, which is consistent with
the pathogenesis of other viral infections. Biological sex differences may manifest …

The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

GTEx Consortium - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was established to characterize genetic
effects on the transcriptome across human tissues and to link these regulatory mechanisms …

The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues

M Oliva, M Muñoz-Aguirre, S Kim-Hellmuth, V Wucher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many complex human phenotypes, including diseases, exhibit sex-
differentiated characteristics. These sex differences have been variously attributed to …

COVID-19 and individual genetic susceptibility/receptivity: role of ACE1/ACE2 genes, immunity, inflammation and coagulation. Might the double X-chromosome in …

D Gemmati, B Bramanti, ML Serino… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from a new
coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was recognized in the city of Wuhan, China. Rapidly, it became …

Map** genomic loci prioritises genes and implicates synaptic biology in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric … - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder whose pathophysiology is largely unknown. It has a
heritability of 60-80%, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles, suggesting …

[HTML][HTML] ACE2 and TMPRSS2 variants and expression as candidates to sex and country differences in COVID-19 severity in Italy

R Asselta, EM Paraboschi, A Mantovani… - Aging (albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) progresses, prognostic markers for
early identification of high-risk individuals are an urgent medical need. Italy has one of the …