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Let's Talk About Sex-Biased Diseases

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Why do some diseases affect more men than women, or more women than men? Science has been unable to explain many of these sex-biased diseases until just recently. In this episode of Beyond the Abstract, Derek invites Dan Weiner, an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School, to talk about a recent breakthrough in neuropsychiatric and autoimmune genetics and how the key to these sex-biased differences may actually lie in our immune system. Kamitaki et al. Complement genes contribute sex-biased vulnerability in diverse disorders. Nature, June 2020. PMID: 32499649. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2277-x

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