New theory on why more women than men develop autoimmune ...

Stanford Medicine-led study shows why women are at greater risk of ...

Research throws light on the mystery of why women are much more prone to autoimmune disorders: A molecule made by one X chromosome in every female cell can ...

New clues to why women have higher risk of autoimmune disorders

Researchers have long known that women are more likely to develop autoimmune disorders than men, though they've struggled to fully ...

Why women have more autoimmune diseases than men

First, many women with high antibody levels never develop autoimmune disease given its low prevalence in the general population (Ji et al., 2016). Similarly, ...

Xist molecule: Why autoimmune diseases strike more women ... - CNN

How the female body handles its extra X chromosome (the male body has just one plus a Y chromosome) might be a factor that helps explain why ...

Why autoimmune disease is more common in women: X ... - Nature

A new explanation for the discrepancy has emerged: a molecular coating typically found on half of a woman's X chromosomes — but not in males' ...

Why Do Women Have More Autoimmune Diseases? Study Points to ...

Women are much more likely than men to have their immune system turn against them, resulting in an array of so-called autoimmune diseases, ...

Study Offers New Clues to Why Most People with Autoimmune ...

The new evidence, reported in the journal Cell, suggests that more women develop autoimmune diseases than men due in part to the most fundamental difference ...

Scientists found a major clue why 4 of 5 autoimmune patients are ...

Women account for about 80 percent of the people afflicted with autoimmune diseases, a collection of more than 100 ailments that burden a ...

New theory on why more women than men develop autoimmune ...

New findings are now being presented on possible mechanisms behind gender differences in the occurrence of rheumatism and other autoimmune ...

Why Do Women Get More Autoimmune Diseases? Study of Mice ...

Four in five people with an autoimmune disease are women. New research points to an RNA molecule involved in silencing one of their X ...

Lupus and Other Autoimmune Diseases Strike Far More Women ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies ...

Lupus and other autoimmune diseases strike far more women than ...

Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, illnesses like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis that occur when the immune ...

New research offers clue as to why 4 of 5 autoimmune patients are ...

Women are far more likely than men to acquire autoimmune diseases and new research may finally explain why. Previous theories had suggested that ...

Xist Explains Why Women More Likely to Get Autoimmune Disease

Why are women more likely to get an autoimmune disease than men? A molecule only found in female cells, Xist, may explain why.

Autoimmune diseases: Molecule known as Xist may make women's ...

... women are at far greater risk of developing an autoimmune disease than men. ... autoimmune diseases disproportionately impact women more than men ...

Why Autoimmune Diseases Affect More Women Than Men

The changes in hormone levels in women going through puberty and menopause also increase their risk of developing autoimmune diseases. A family history of ...

Why Women Get More Autoimmune Diseases Than Men - The Atlantic

The placental theory that Wilson's team devised could be the reason this happens. Because women have to have strong immune systems that buck ...

Autoimmune Diseases Affect More Women than Men

New research may explain why women are far more likely to get autoimmune diseases. One theory is that a process using the RNA Xist involving ...

Why Are Autoimmune Disorders More Common in Women?

The bottom line is that if you are born a genetic female, you are more likely than your male counterpart to develop an autoimmune disorder.

New Study Finds Possible Linkage to Autoimmune Prevalence in ...

They found the male mice with the active Xist gene developed lupus-like autoimmunity at rates similar to that of females. While Xist alone didn' ...