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Published online 21 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060220-9
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Sex on the brain
Gene that helps determine gender linked to Parkinson's disease.
Biologists have proof that men do, in fact, have sex on the brain. A crucial sex-determining gene on the male Y chromosome, called Sry, is known to be expressed in the male brain as well as in the testes.
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