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Nature Research, Nature Communications, 1(8), 2017

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15475

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Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits

Journal article published in 2017 by Natasha A. Karp, John R. Seavitt, Damian Smedley, Tania Sorg, Anneliese O. Speak, Karen P. Steel, Karen L. Svenson, Tomohiro Suzuki, Masaru Tamura, Ikuko Yamada, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Atsushi Yoshiki, Heather A. Tolentino, Todd Tolentino, Igor Vukobradovic and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

AbstractThe 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.