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Is sex bias orchestrated in the skin?

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The identification of VGLL3 as a transcription (co-)factor that underlies the sex bias of the human immune system further underscores the relevance of research into this area.

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Figure 1: Complex regulation of the immune response underlies sex bias in the risk of infection and autoimmune diseases.

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  1. Aridaman Pandit and Timothy R.D.J. Radstake are in the Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands.,

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  2. Linde Meyaard is in the Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands.,

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Pandit, A., Meyaard, L. & Radstake, T. Is sex bias orchestrated in the skin?. Nat Immunol 18, 142–143 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3658

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