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Embryo brain shows sex signs early

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    Genetic discrepancies between males and females measured mid-term.

    Genes drive the brains of male and female embryos apart as early as midway through gestation, a new study suggests1. These gender differences were assumed to arise around birth due to hormones pumped out by males' budding testes.

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    1. Dewing, P., Shi, T., Horvath, S. & Vilain, E. Sexually dimorphic gene expression in mouse brain precedes gonadal differentiation. Molecular Brain Research, 118, 82 - 90, doi:10.1016/S0169-328X(03)00339-5 (2003).

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