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Why Females Do Better: The X Chromosomal TLR7 Gene-Dose Effect in COVID-19
A male sex bias has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic, fitting to the sex-biased pattern in other viral infections. Males are 2.84 times more often admitted to the ICU and mortality is 1.39 times higher as a result of COVID-19. Various factors play a role in this, and novel studies suggest that the g...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8632002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34858409 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.756262 |