Miryam Naddaf in Nature:
By analysing more than a million brain cells, researchers have uncovered widespread differences in patterns of gene activity between male and female brains.
The work, which defined sex on the basis of a person’s combination of sex chromosomes, could help to explain why the risk of developing some brain conditions — such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease — differs between males and females.
Although the differences were subtle, the team identified more than 100 genes that showed consistent variation in their expression between males and females across several brain regions. The work was published on 16 April in Science1.
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