Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women

Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 12:52 in Health & Medicine

Men and women differ in obvious and less obvious ways -- for example, in the prevalence of certain diseases or reactions to drugs. How are these connected to one's sex? Researchers recently uncovered thousands of human genes that are expressed -- copied out to make proteins -- differently in the two sexes.

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