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Fig. 3 | Biology of Sex Differences

Fig. 3

From: Are females more variable than males in gene expression? Meta-analysis of microarray datasets

Fig. 3

Analysis of sex differences in CV, dataset by dataset. In each dataset, the number of genes with male bias in CV was divided by the number with female bias in CV, and then the M:F ratio was log2 transformed. a The histogram shows the distribution ratios of 293 datasets. Modal ratios were near sexual equality (log2 ratio of 0). b Datasets showing more probes with higher CV in males than females are shown in blue, and numbers of datasets with more probes with higher CV in females than males are shown in red. Overlap of blue and red bars is shown as purple. The difference in male and female histograms was not statistically significant. c The difference in numbers of datasets at each CV ratio. Up shows higher CV in males than females; down shows higher CV in females than males

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