Sex bias of females in survival from cancer and infections. Is X the answer?

Major differences in survival of men and women from infectious diseases and cancers have been highlighted by death rates from COVID-19 infections. In cancer, attention has been focussed on differences in gene expression from X chromosomes in men and women with a preponderance of genes involved in im...

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Autores principales: Emran, Abdullah Al, Gallagher, Stuart J., Tiffen, Jessamy C., Hersey, Peter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33469152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-01245-1
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description Major differences in survival of men and women from infectious diseases and cancers have been highlighted by death rates from COVID-19 infections. In cancer, attention has been focussed on differences in gene expression from X chromosomes in men and women with a preponderance of genes involved in immune responses being expressed in women. Important findings have been that some of the genes are important epigenetic regulators that play fundamental roles in immune responses.
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spelling pubmed-78139692021-01-18 Sex bias of females in survival from cancer and infections. Is X the answer? Emran, Abdullah Al Gallagher, Stuart J. Tiffen, Jessamy C. Hersey, Peter Br J Cancer Comment Major differences in survival of men and women from infectious diseases and cancers have been highlighted by death rates from COVID-19 infections. In cancer, attention has been focussed on differences in gene expression from X chromosomes in men and women with a preponderance of genes involved in immune responses being expressed in women. Important findings have been that some of the genes are important epigenetic regulators that play fundamental roles in immune responses. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-19 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7813969/ /pubmed/33469152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-01245-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Cancer Research UK 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Note This work is published under the standard license to publish agreement. After 12 months the work will become freely available and the license terms will switch to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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Sex bias of females in survival from cancer and infections. Is X the answer?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813969/
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