Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits.
- Karp NA
- Mason J
- Beaudet AL
- Benjamini Y
- Bower L
- Braun RE
- Brown SDM
- Chesler EJ
- Dickinson ME
- Flenniken AM
- Fuchs H
- Angelis MH
- Gao X
- Guo S
- Greenaway S
- Heller R
- Herault Y
- Justice MJ
- Kurbatova N
- Lelliott CJ
- Lloyd KCK
- Mallon AM
- Mank JE
- Masuya H
- McKerlie C
- Meehan TF
- Mott RF
- Murray SA
- Parkinson H
- Ramirez-Solis R
- Santos L
- Seavitt JR
- Smedley D
- Sorg T
- Speak AO
- Steel KP
- Svenson KL
- International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (Ollert M as collaborator)
- Wakana S
- West D
- Wells S
- Westerberg H
- Yaacoby S
- White JK.
The role of sex in biomedical studies has often been overlooked, despite evidence of sexually dimorphic effects in some biological studies. Here, we used high-throughput phenotype data from 14,250 wildtype and 40,192 mutant mice (representing 2,186 knockout lines), analysed for up to 234 traits, and found a large proportion of mammalian traits both in wildtype and mutants are influenced by sex. This result has implications for interpreting disease phenotypes in animal models and humans.
2017 Jun. Nat Commun.8:15475.