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Sex Differences

GeneSIS: enhancing transferability of polygenic scores with variant-level gene-by-sex interaction effects

We introduce GeneSIS, a statistical learning framework for modeling variant-level gene-by-sex interaction effects, and show it improves polygenic score prediction across 32 traits …

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Sex-specific genetic effects across biomarkers

In this study led by Emily Flynn, we discovered a surprising sex-specificity in the genetics of testosterone.