Sex differences in brain epigenetics.

doi:10.2217/epi.10.60

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Sex differences in brain epigenetics.

Epigenomics - 1 Dec 2010

Menger Yannick, Bettscheider Marc, Murgatroyd Chris, Spengler Dietmar

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Sexual differentiation of the brain takes place during a perinatal-sensitive time window as a result of gonadal hormone-induced activational and organizational effects on neuronal substrates. Increasing evidence suggests that epigenetic mechanisms can contribute to the establishment and maintenance of some aspects of these processes, and that these epigenetic mechanisms may themselves be under the control of sex...

Topics

Brain
Drug Therapy
Epigenesis, Genetic
Epigenomics
Female
Gonadal Steroid Hormones
Gonads
Humans
Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System
Male
Phenotype
Receptors, Steroid
Sex Differentiation
Sex Factors

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PMID: 22122084
DOI: 10.2217/epi.10.60

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