Sex differences in participation in large-scale genetic studies may affect results

(European Society of Human Genetics) An international group of researchers have found differences in the characteristics that drive men and women to participate in genome-wide association studies, which analyse genetic variants in different individuals to see if any are associated with a trait or disease. Millions of participants are involved. This means that researchers can see smaller and smaller effects increasing the number of genes they can link to a disease or trait, but these large number...