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Mate quality bias: Sex differences in humans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In mate choice copying, a male is more likely to be chosen by other females simply by being observed mating. A recent finding is that women are influenced in their assessments of men by the phenotypic quality of males' sexual partners.
Antonios Vakirtzis   +3 more
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A father effect explains sex-ratio bias [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Sex ratio allocation has important fitness consequences, and theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio in cases where the fitness returns of producing male and female offspring vary.
Jonathan D. Ballou   +16 more
core   +1 more source

Sex and age differences in cognitive bias and neural activation in response to cognitive bias testing

open access: yesNeurobiology of Stress, 2022
Cognitive symptoms of depression, including negative cognitive bias, are more severe in women than in men. Current treatments to reduce negative cognitive bias are not effective and sex differences in the neural activity underlying cognitive bias may ...
Travis E. Hodges   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fetal origin of sex‐bias brain aging [PDF]

open access: yesThe FASEB Journal, 2022
Abstract DNA methylation plays crucial roles during fetal development as well as aging. Whether the aging of the brain is programmed at the fetal stage remains untested. To test this hypothesis, mouse epigenetic clock (epiclock) was profiled in fetal (gestation day 15), postnatal (day 5), and aging (week 70) brain of male and female ...
Maliha Islam   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A Sex-Stratified Genome-Wide Association Study of Tuberculosis Using a Multi-Ethnic Genotyping Array

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2019
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a complex disease with a known human genetic component. Males seem to be more affected than females and in most countries the TB notification rate is twice as high in males than in females ...
Haiko Schurz   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Haplodiploidy, sex-ratio adjustment, and eusociality. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Hamilton's "haplodiploidy hypothesis" holds that inflated sororal relatedness has promoted altruistic sib rearing in haplodiploids, potentially explaining their apparent predisposition to eusociality.
Ross, Laura, Gardner, Andy
core   +1 more source

An assessment of sex bias in neurodevelopmental disorders [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Medicine, 2015
Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and intellectual disability have a sex bias skewed towards boys; however, systematic assessment of this bias is complicated by the presence of significant genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of these disorders.To assess the extent and characteristics of sex bias, we analyzed the frequency of comorbid ...
Andrew Polyak   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Characterization of cxorf21 Provides Molecular Insight Into Female-Bias Immune Response in SLE Pathogenesis

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2019
Background: Ninety percent of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients are women. X chromosome-dosage increases susceptibility to SLE and primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS).
Valerie M. Harris   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen 1990 ...
Klasen, Stephan, Wink, Claudia
core   +1 more source

Sex Role, Bias Gender dan Pekerjaan

open access: yesJurnal Pamator, 2015
Penelitian ini ingin mengetahui pendapat mahasiswa tentang jenis-jenis pekerjaan yang menurut mereka pantas dilakukan oleh laki-laki dan perempuan. Selain itu juga dihubungkan dengan teori gender.
Netty Dyah Kurniasari
doaj   +1 more source

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