Why women have more autoimmune diseases than men: An evolutionary perspective - PMC
Women have up to a fourfold increase in risk for autoimmune disease compared to men. Many explanations have been proposed, including sex hormones, the X chromosome, microchimerism, environmental factors, and the microbiome. However, the mechanism for ...
Evol Appl . 2020 Dec 1;14(3):629–633. doi: 10.1111/eva.13167 Why women have more autoimmune diseases than men: An evolutionary perspective Vanessa L Kronzer Vanessa L Kronzer 1 Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Find articles by Vanessa L Kronzer 1, ✉ , Stanley Louis Bridges Jr Stanley Louis Bridges Jr 2 Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA Find articles by Stanley Louis Bridges Jr 2 , John M Davis III John M Davis III 1 Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Find articles by John M
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