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ey0016.6-14 | Food for Thought in Transgender Medicine | ESPEYB16

6.14 Genetic link between gender dysphoria and sex hormone signaling

M Foreman , L Hare , K York , K Balakrishnan , FJ Sanchez , F Harte , J Erasmus , E Vilain , VR Harley

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Feb 1;104(2):390–396.doi: 10.1210/jc.2018-01105. PubMed PMID: 30247609.Polymorphisms in sex hormone genes have been described in gender dysphoric individuals with inconsistent findings. In this case-control study of 380 trans women and 344 control males, functional variants in 12 sex hormone signaling genes were studied. Significant a...

ey0019.10-14 | Pathogenesis | ESPEYB19

10.14. An autoimmune stem-like CD8 T cell population drives type 1 diabetes

SV Gearty , F Dundar , P Zumbo , G Espinosa-Carrasco , M Shakiba , FJ Sanchez-Rivera , ND Socci , P Trivedi , SW Lowe , P Lauer , N Mohibullah , A Viale , TP DiLorenzo , D Betel , A Schietinger

Nature 2022;602(7895):156-161. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34847567/Brief Summary: This study used a well-characterized mouse model of type 1 diabetes (T1D), the non-obese diabetic mouse (NOD), to examine the fate of CD8 T cells over the 5–30 week course of the disease. They found a stem-like autoimmune progenitor population in the pancreatic draining lymph nodes, which can self-re...