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Does Gender Leave an Epigenetic Imprint on the Brain?

27 Feb 2019

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The words "sex" and "gender" are often used interchangeably in common usage. In fact, the Merriam-Webster dictionary offers "sex" as the definition of gender. The authors of this review are neuroscientists, and the words "sex" and "gender" mean very different things to us: sex is based on biological factors such as sex chromosomes and gonads, whereas gender has a social component and involves differential...

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PMID: 30872999
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00173

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