Journal article
Origin of Sex-Biased Mental Disorders: Do Males and Females Experience Different Selective Regimes?
Abstract
The origins of sex-biased differences in disease and health are of growing interest to both medical researchers and health professionals. Several major factors have been identified that affect sex differences in incidence of diseases and mental disorders. These are: sex chromosomes, sex hormones and female immunity, sexual selection and antagonistic evolution, and differential susceptibility of sexes to environmental factors. These factors work …
Authors
Brown CM; Wong Q; Thakur A; Singh K; Singh RS
Journal
Journal of Molecular Evolution, Vol. 90, No. 6, pp. 401–417
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2022
DOI
10.1007/s00239-022-10072-2
ISSN
0022-2844