A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.

Researchers found that a gene on the Y chromosome influences how aortic valve stenosis progresses differently in males and ...

But over the past decade, scientists and funding agencies ... tetratricopeptide repeat containing Y-linked), as a key driver of valve calcification in males. Digging into the sex differences ...