Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental), along with colleagues from the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, co-authored “Sex Effects on Early Life Features of the Gingival Transcriptome,” which published in the journal, Frontiers in Dental Medicine. The article is one of four submitted to the research topic Impact of Sex and Aging in Periodontal Diseases. The authors reported clear gene expression differences in healthy (baseline) tissues between the sexes, with elevations in females associated with immune responses and elevated gene expression in males, related to tissue structural genes, and concluded that the evaluation model can be used to explore processes that contribute to sex as a biological variable in periodontitis.