Conservation, acquisition, and functional impact of sex-biased gene expression in mammals.
Science
; 365(6450)2019 07 19.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31320509
ABSTRACT
Sex differences abound in human health and disease, as they do in other mammals used as models. The extent to which sex differences are conserved at the molecular level across species and tissues is unknown. We surveyed sex differences in gene expression in human, macaque, mouse, rat, and dog, across 12 tissues. In each tissue, we identified hundreds of genes with conserved sex-biased expression-findings that, combined with genomic analyses of human height, explain ~12% of the difference in height between females and males. We surmise that conserved sex biases in expression of genes otherwise operating equivalently in females and males contribute to sex differences in traits. However, most sex-biased expression arose during the mammalian radiation, which suggests that careful attention to interspecies divergence is needed when modeling human sex differences.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Expressão Gênica
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Caracteres Sexuais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Science
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos