Article
X chromosome factor Kdm6a enhances memory independent of its demethylase function in the aging XY male brain
2022-07-19
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Males exhibit shorter lifespan and more cognitive deficits in aging human populations. In mammals, the X chromosome is enriched for neural genes and is a major source of biologic sex difference, in part, because males show decreased expression of select X factors. While each sex (XX and XY) harbors one active X due to X chromosome inactivation in females, some genes, such as Kdm6a , transcripti...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0cbfbb54-733d-5aef-acfd-b37a2bd602c1
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.07.18.500498
