Mechanisms and consequences of sex differences in immune responses

SE Dunn, WA Perry, SL Klein - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2024 - nature.com
Biological sex differences refer to differences between males and females caused by the sex
chromosome complement (that is, XY or XX), reproductive tissues (that is, the presence of …

Sex shapes gut–microbiota–brain communication and disease

KC Hokanson, C Hernández, GE Deitzler… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
Research into the microbiota–gut–brain axis (MGBA) has entered a golden age, raising the
hope that therapeutics acting on it may offer breakthroughs in the treatment of many …

Why the estrous cycle matters for neuroscience

D Rocks, H Cham, M Kundakovic - Biology of sex Differences, 2022 - Springer
Background Ovarian hormone fluctuations over the rodent estrous cycle and the human
menstrual cycle are known to significantly impact brain physiology and disease risk, yet this …

Amplification is the primary mode of gene-by-sex interaction in complex human traits

C Zhu, MJ Ming, JM Cole, MD Edge, M Kirkpatrick… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Sex differences in complex traits are suspected to be in part due to widespread gene-by-sex
interactions (GxSex), but empirical evidence has been elusive. Here, we infer the mixture of …

[HTML][HTML] Sex diversity in the 21st century: Concepts, frameworks, and approaches for the future of neuroendocrinology

KO Smiley, KM Munley, K Aghi, SE Lipshutz… - Hormones and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have
used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two …

Quality control and analytic best practices for testing genetic models of sex differences in large populations

EA Khramtsova, MA Wilson, J Martin, SJ Winham… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Phenotypic sex-based differences exist for many complex traits. In other cases, phenotypes
may be similar, but underlying biology may vary. Thus, sex-aware genetic analyses are …

[HTML][HTML] Deconstructing sex: Strategies for undoing binary thinking in neuroendocrinology and behavior

MG Massa, K Aghi, MJ Hill - Hormones and Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
The scientific community widely recognizes that “sex” is a complex category composed of
multiple physiologies. Yet in practice, basic scientific research often treats “sex” as a single …

What's fair is… fair? Presenting JustEFAB, an ethical framework for operationalizing medical ethics and social justice in the integration of clinical machine learning …

M Mccradden, O Odusi, S Joshi, I Akrout… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The problem of algorithmic bias represents an ethical threat to the fair treatment of patients
when their care involves machine learning (ML) models informing clinical decision-making …

A normative framework for artificial intelligence as a sociotechnical system in healthcare

MD McCradden, S Joshi, JA Anderson, AJ London - Patterns, 2023 - cell.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are of great interest to healthcare organizations for their
potential to improve patient care, yet their translation into clinical settings remains …

[HTML][HTML] The interaction of genetic sex and prenatal alcohol exposure on health across the lifespan

S Bake, SK Rouzer, S Mavuri, RC Miranda… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) can reprogram the development of cells and tissues,
resulting in a spectrum of physical and neurobehavioral teratology. PAE immediately …