Scientists found a major clue why 4 of 5 autoimmune patients are women
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Interesting. And apparently this is pretty common. Less than 1 in 1000 male births.
Just for clarity:
<1 in 1000 or;
1 in <1000?
I assume the latter because the former is less obvious as "pretty common" given that <1 could be something like 1e-10, but it's not clear as written.
> occurring in one to two per 1,000 live births
Isn't this actually the definition of female?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXYY_syndrome
> Isn't this actually the definition of female?
‘Women’ and ‘female’ are not interchangeable; one is a gender characteristic, the other is a sex characteristic. The statement as made is valid: Women are statistically likely to be XX, rather than XY or XXY or no doubt many other variations. ‘XX is female’ is a convenient rubric that is easy to remember, but as is usual for such things, human bodies do not respect convenient rubrics regarding genetics and sexes.
That's not what most dictionaries say. They say a 'woman' is an adult female human.