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Sex Bias in Tuberculosis in the Developing World [PDF]
American Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2019 Tuberculosis (TB), the most deadly global single organism infectious disease, kills nearly twice as many men as women. Understanding the factors that drive this bias in TB mortality is an important aspect of the global effort to reduce the enormous burden of this disease in the developing world.
Shaw, Sophie, Purdy, Kevin J.
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An unequal sex ratio in the recipient population interacts with introgressor sex-bias.
, 2023 A Aut:ChrX coverage ratios from simulations that reflect both sex-bias within the introgression pulse, and a constant, (“standing”) unequal sex ratio in the recipient population.
Elizabeth T. Chevy (16828229) +2 more
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Considerations and challenges for sex-aware drug repurposing
Biology of Sex Differences, 2022 Highlights Genetic, epigenetic, hormonal, immunological, metabolic, and environmental factors affect sex-biased drug responses. Drug repurposing approaches provide a significant advantage over novel drug development by reducing lengthy and costly ...
Jennifer L. Fisher +5 more
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Large-scale labeling and assessment of sex bias in publicly available expression data
BMC Bioinformatics, 2021 Background Women are at more than 1.5-fold higher risk for clinically relevant adverse drug events. While this higher prevalence is partially due to gender-related effects, biological sex differences likely also impact drug response.
Emily Flynn, Annie Chang, Russ B. Altman
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Controlling Behavior, Sex Bias and Coaching Success in Japanese Track and Field
Sports, 2023 Coaching athletes is a complex and lengthy process. Recently, attention has been given to coaches over-controlling behavior toward the athletes’ personal lives and possible sex bias, but the impact of these behaviors on coaching success is unclear.
Yuka Tsukahara +4 more
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Sex-bias tests for a two-epoch demographic model.
, 2019 Each plot is a demographic model with time on the x-axis and effective population size on the y-axis. For a two-epoch model, there are three possible X-chromosomal models, one for each sex-bias scenario: Model 0 has no sex-bias (p = 0.5), Model 1 has a ...
Shaila Musharoff (475950) +3 more
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A 10-year follow-up study of sex inclusion in the biological sciences
eLife, 2020 In 2016, to address the historical overrepresentation of male subjects in biomedical research, the US National Institutes of Health implemented a policy requiring investigators to consider sex as a biological variable.
Nicole C Woitowich +2 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2021 The effect of sex on systemic therapy for psoriasis has not been well studied. The aim of this study was to analyse a large multicentre Spanish cohort of 2,881 patients with psoriasis (58.3% males), followed from January 2008 to November 2018, to ...
Carlos Pelayo Hernández-Fernández +25 more
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Intervention Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas, 2018 Sex and gender are important considerations within refugee studies. Risks to health and wellbeing may manifest differently for refugee women and men, as may the use of health and social services and responses to interventions.
William Affleck +2 more
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The mixed legacy of the rat estrous cycle
Biology of Sex Differences, 2023 Background The rat estrous cycle first characterized by Long and Evans in 1922 profoundly affected the course of endocrine research. Investigators took advantage of sex steroid hormone fluctuations associated with the cycle to assess hormonal influences ...
Irving Zucker
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