The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues
Meritxell Oliva, Manuel Muñoz-Aguirre, Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, Valentin Wucher, Ariel DH Gewirtz, Daniel J. Cotter, Princy Parsana, Silva Kasela, Brunilda Balliu, Ana Viñuela, Stephane E. Castel, Pejman Mohammadi, François Aguet, Yuxin Zou, Ekaterina Khramtsova, Andrew D. Skol, Diego Garrido-Martín, Ferrán Reverter, Andrew Brown, Patrick Evans, Eric R. Gamazon, A. J. Payne, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Alvaro Barbeira, Andrew R. Hamel, Ángel Martínez-Pérez, José Manuel Soria, Brandon L. Pierce, Matthew Stephens, Eleazar Eskin, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Ayellet V. Segrè, Hae Kyung Im, Barbara E. Engelhardt, Kristin Ardlie, Stephen B. Montgomery, Alexis Battle, Tuuli Lappalainen, Roderic Guigó, Barbara E. Stranger
Abstract
By integrating sex-specific Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) data with gene function and transcription factor binding annotations, these authors describe mechanisms contributing to sex differences in the human transcriptome.