Improving the study of sex-based differences in complex traits and disease

Phenotypic sex differences are common in many aspects of health and disease. Despite the success of genome-wide association studies in improving the understanding of how genetic variation contributes to the manifestation of complex traits or diseases, there has been little use of this data to investigate sex differences in the underlying mechanisms.

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