SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: June 21, 2008
EXCERPT: "An article published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics reports that male and female primates and humans have hundreds of biological differences that are evident in gene expressions in the cerebral cortex. .... They believe that the insights provided by this study may help explain some of the psychiatric diseases with differences in males and females .... [and] may be used in the future to calculate medical dosages, as well as for other treatments of diseases or damage to the brain." more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Reinius B, Saetre P, Leonard JA, Blekhman R, Merino-Martinez R, Gilad Y, Jazin E. An evolutionarily conserved sexual signature in the primate brain. PLoS Genet. 2008 Jun 20;4(6):e1000100. Free full text article in PMC.
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