Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) Ann Arbor, recently published a study in Nature Immunology that was aimed at exploring why women are disproportionately more susceptible to autoimmune diseases. “[Through research], our team identified a gene expression difference between the sexes that is associated with susceptibility to autoimmune disease,” says senior author Dr. Johann Gudjonsson, an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.