Opinion: How does XIST promote sex bias in autoimmune diseases?

Felipe Andrade

doi:10.3389/fimmu.2024.1399408

Opinion: How does XIST promote sex bias in autoimmune diseases?

Front Immunol. 2024 Apr 11:15:1399408. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1399408. eCollection 2024.

Author

Felipe Andrade¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Rheumatology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: XIST; autoantibodies; autoimmune; interferon; lupus; sex-biased; toll-like receptor.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Autoimmune Diseases* / immunology
Female
Humans
Male
RNA, Long Noncoding* / genetics
X Chromosome Inactivation

Substances

RNA, Long Noncoding
XIST non-coding RNA

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding for this project was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants number R21 AI169851 and R21 AI176766.