WashU authors on topics of sex and gender in research and healthcare

Decreased voluntary alcohol intake and ventral striatal epigenetic and transcriptional remodeling in male Acss2 KO mice

Egervari G, Donahue G, Cardé NAQ, Alexander DC, Hogan C, Shaw JK, Periandri EM, Fleites V , De Biasi M, Berger SL.(2025) Neuropharmacology, 265, art. no. 110258

Exploring the global impact of obesity and diet on dementia burden: the role of national policies and sex differences

Cao X, Peng H, Hu Z, Xu C, Ning M, Zhou M, Mi Y, Yu P, Fazekas-Pongor V, Major D, Ungvari Z, Fekete M, Lehoczki A, Guo Y. (2024) GeroScience

Fatty acid binding protein 7 plays an important modulatory sex-dependent role on brain endocannabinoid levels and THC metabolism

Penman SL, Senetra AS, Roeder NM, Richardson BJ, Pareek O, Owada Y, Kagawa Y, Gold MS, McCurdy CR, Sharma A, Thanos PK. (2024) PLoS ONE, 19 (12), art. no. e0313091

Self-regulated analgesia in males but not females is mediated by endogenous opioids

Dean JG, Reyes M, Oliva V, Khatib L, Riegner G, Gonzalez N, Posey G, Collier J, Birenbaum J, Chakravarthy K, Wells RE, Goodin B, Fillingim R, Zeidan F. (2024) PNAS Nexus, 3 (10), art. no. page 453

Opioid use disorder risk alleles in self-reported assigned African American/Afro-Caribbean and European biogeographical genetic ancestry groups and in males and females

Sprague JE, Freiermuth CE, Lambert J, Braun R, Frey, JA, Bachmann DJ, Bischof JJ, Beaumont L, Lyons MS, Pantalon MV, Punches BE, Ancona R, Kisor DF. (2024) Pharmacogenomics Journal

Relationship between sex biases in gene expression and sex biases in autism and Alzheimer’s disease

Fass SB, Mulvey B, Chase R, Yang W Selmanovic D, Chaturvedi SM, Tycksen E, Weiss LA, Dougherty JD. (2024) Biology of Sex Differences, 15 (1), art. no. 47

Sex Differences in Response Inhibition–Related Neural Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Civilians With Recent Trauma

Borst B, Jovanovic T, House SL, Bruce SE, Harnett NG, Roeckner AR, Ely TD, Lebois LAM, Young D, Beaudoin FL, An X, Neylan TC, Clifford GD, Linnstaedt SD, Germine LT, Bollen KA, Rauch SL, Haran JP, Storrow AB, Lewandowski C, Musey PI Jr, Hendry PL, Sheikh S, Jones CW, Punches BE, Hudak LA, Pascual JL, Seamon MJ, Datner EM, Pearson C, Peak DA, Domeier RM, Rathlev, NK, O’Neil BJ, Sergot P, Sanchez LD, Harte SE, Koenen KC, Kessler RC, McLean SA, Ressler KJ, Stevens JS, van Rooij SJH. (2024) Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Sex Differences in Dystonia

Kilic-Berkmen G, Scorr LM, McKay L, Thayani M, Donsante Y, Perlmutter JS, Norris SA, Wright L, Klein C, Feuerstein JS, Mahajan A, Wagle-Shukla A, Malaty I, LeDoux MS, Pirio-Richardson S, Pantelyat A, Moukheiber E, Frank S, Ondo W, Saunders-Pullman R, Lohman K, Hess EJ, Jinnah HA. (2024) Movement Disorders Clinical Practice

Treating sex and gender differences as a continuous variable can improve precision cancer treatments

Yang W , Rubin JB. (2024) Biology of Sex Differences, 15 (1), art. no. 35

Oxytocin-induced birth causes sex-specific behavioral and brain connectivity changes in developing rat offspring

Giri T, Maloney SE, Giri S, Goo, YA, Song, JH, Son M, Tycksen E, Conyers SB, Bice A, Ge X, Garbow JR, Quirk JD, Bauer AQ, Palanisamy A. (2024) iScience, 27 (2), art. no. 108960

Analysis of anemia and iron supplementation among glioblastoma patients reveals sex-biased association between anemia and survival

Shenoy G, Slagle-Webb B, Khunsriraksakul C, Pandya Shesh B, Luo J, Khristov V, Smith N, Mansouri A, Zacharia BE Holder S, Lathia JD, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Connor JR. (2024) Scientific Reports, 14 (1), art. no. 2389

Hormonal basis of sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity

Wasilczuk AZ, Rinehart C, Aggarwal A, Stone ME, Mashour GA, Avidan MS, Kelz MB, Proekt A. (2024) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (3), art. no. e2312913120