Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits

Archive ouverte

Karp, Natasha | Mason, Jeremy | Beaudet, Arthur | Benjamini, Yoav | Bower, Lynette | Braun, Robert | Brown, Steve | Chesler, Elissa | Dickinson, Mary | Flenniken, Ann | Fuchs, Helmut | Hrabe de Angelis, Martin | Gao, Xiang | Guo, Shiying | Greenaway, Simon | Heller, Ruth | Herault, Yann | Justice, Monica | Kurbatova, Natalja | Lelliott, Christopher | Lloyd, K | Mallon, Ann-Marie | Mank, Judith | Masuya, Hiroshi | Mckerlie, Colin | Meehan, Terrence | Mott, Richard | Murray, Stephen | Parkinson, Helen | Ramirez-Solis, Ramiro | Santos, Luis | Seavitt, John | Smedley, Damian | Sorg-Guss, Tania | Speak, Anneliese | Steel, Karen | Svenson, Karen | Wakana, Shigeharu | West, David | Wells, Sara | Westerberg, Henrik | Yaacoby, Shay | White, Jacqueline

Edité par CCSD ; Nature Publishing Group -

The role of sex in biomedical studies has often been overlooked, despite evidence of sexually dimorphic effects in some biological studies. Here, we used high-throughput phenotype data from 14,250 wildtype and 40,192 mutant mice (representing 2,186 knockout lines), analysed for up to 234 traits, and found a large proportion of mammalian traits both in wildtype and mutants are influenced by sex. This result has implications for interpreting disease phenotypes in animal models and humans.

Suggestions

Du même auteur

Disease model discovery from 3,328 gene knockouts by The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium

Archive ouverte | Meehan, Terrence | CCSD

Although next-generation sequencing has revolutionized the ability to associate variants with human diseases, diagnostic rates and development of new therapies are still limited by a lack of knowledge of the functions and pathobio...

A large scale hearing loss screen reveals an extensive unexplored genetic landscape for auditory dysfunction

Archive ouverte | Bowl, Michael | CCSD

The developmental and physiological complexity of the auditory system is likely reflected in the underlying set of genes involved in auditory function. In humans, over 150 non-syndromic loci have been identified, and there are mor...

Identification of genetic elements in metabolism by high-throughput mouse phenotyping

Archive ouverte | Rozman, Jan | CCSD

Metabolic diseases are a worldwide problem but the underlying genetic factors and their relevance to metabolic disease remain incompletely understood. Genome-wide research is needed to characterize so-far unannotated mammalian met...

Chargement des enrichissements...