Sex, Genes and Vulnerability (VIDEO)

Harvard Medical School

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Some diseases exhibit a clear sex bias, occurring more often, hitting harder or eliciting different symptoms in men or women. New work led by researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard provides a clear genetic explanation behind the sex bias observed in some of these diseases. Nolan Kamitaki, first author of the study in Nature, provides a two-minute summary of the findings.

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