Mutations in FMR1, the gene encoding fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1 (FMRP), located at Xq27.3 and discovered in 1991, are the leading single-gene causes of autism and intellectual disability.

Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's. Unlike men, who carry ...

New research is shedding light on the biological mechanisms that may help explain why systemic lupus erthyematosus (SLE) and ...

Autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), are more common in women than men, and scientists are still trying to figure out why. One reason may be related to the number of X ...

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women. Their insights advance our understanding of our most enigmatic chromosome, the ...

X chromosome reactivation contributes to reducing the signs of disease in the female brain. Female cells have two X chromosomes and male cells have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. So that the ...

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women. Their insights advance our understanding of our most enigmatic chromosome, the ...

In female mammals, one of the two X chromosomes is usually inactive and forms the so-called Barr body. The image shows a cell nucleus with the Barr body marked in green. Unlike men, who carry one X ...