Risk of epilepsy in opposite-sex and same-sex twins: a twin cohort study

Abstract Background There is a complex interaction between female and male sex hormones and the risk of epilepsy. Whether prenatal exposure to higher levels of sex hormones affects the development of epilepsy in childhood or later in life is not well known. The sex hormone environment of fetuses may...

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Main Authors: Yanyan Mao, Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt, Kaare Christensen, Chunsen Wu, Jakob Christensen, Jørn Olsen, Yuelian Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Biology of Sex Differences
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13293-018-0179-5