Genetic, molecular, and cellular determinations of sex-specific cardiovascular traits
: Vaura Felix
: Marianne J. Legato, Dov Feldberg, Marek Glezerman
Publisher: Elsevier
: 2023
: Sex, Gender, and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside
: Sex, Gender, and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside
: 35
: 46
: 978-0-12-823937-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823937-7.00020-1
: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128239377000201?via%3Dihub
Cardiovascular disease, the number one killer worldwide, affects men and women differently. This chapter explores how sex modifies the effect of subcellular information carriers—sex hormones, the transcriptome, the epigenome, and the genome—on cardiovascular traits and outcomes. The emphasis will be on human studies, particularly those that report sex-specific associations between the epigenome and the cardiovascular system.