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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Gene study sheds a little light on sexes' differences
2005-03-17
Other than the obvious, I take it?
Hush, you. You're messin' with me meal-ticket!
Women get more work out of hundreds of genes on the X chromosome than men do, and that could help explain biological differences between the sexes, a study says. The results imply that women make higher doses of certain proteins than men do, which could play out in sex differences in both normal life and disease, researchers said. So far, however, none of the genes identified in the study has been linked to any such observable differences, said senior study author Huntington Willard of Duke University. He and Laura Carrel of Pennsylvania State University describe their analysis of the X chromosome genes in today's issue of the journal Nature. A second paper in the same issue presents a comprehensive analysis of the chromosome's DNA, in which an international team of scientists found 1,098 genes.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  "Men and women-they be different." - the great comic Sinbad.

If he can get it, why does Harvard have such a hard time?
Posted by: eLarson   2005-03-17 4:36:29 PM  

#3  Ha, ha!!!! Made my day.
Posted by: Hunter   2005-03-17 3:48:59 PM  

#2  This topic doesn't need much in the way of study. If one wants to discern between a male and a female chromosome, simply pull down their genes.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-03-17 3:45:08 PM  

#1  Dr. Jeannie T. Lee, who studies X chromosome inactivation at Harvard Medical School,

Harvard? Isn't she asking for trouble?

I once read a study that suggested that, as a rule, male doctors were better as researchers, and female doctors were better at dealing with patients. Both could perform the actual doctoring, diagnosis, surgery, etc., equally well, but the women had the better skills in dealing in one area, and the men had better in the other. It was a personality issue.

So here is a woman doctor at Harvard, where there has been a recent controversy, who is doing research on sex differences. Go figure...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-03-17 1:41:07 PM  

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