Natalia S Fernández, Rosa Fernández, Marcelino Gómez-Balaguer, Mireia Mora, Julio Guerrero-Fernández, Amadora Moral-Martos
{"title":"Is there a biological component in gender identity?","authors":"Natalia S Fernández, Rosa Fernández, Marcelino Gómez-Balaguer, Mireia Mora, Julio Guerrero-Fernández, Amadora Moral-Martos","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Gender identity is each person's internal sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum, which may (cisgender) or may not (transgender) coincide with the sex assigned at birth. The multiple difficulties experienced by transgender individuals constitutes a risk factor for mood disorders and self-harming behaviors. However, knowledge about biological influences on gender identity development has the potential to reduce the stigmatization of gender minorities.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>We conducted a literature review of the available literature on the biological basis of gender identity, summarizing the main scientific evidence in the field in addition to its limitations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A growing body of research supports that the broad spectrum that characterizes gender identity constitutes a multifactorial trait with a heritable component. At the neuroanatomical level, this model translates to the high variability observed in the degree of masculinization/feminization of different features within a single brain, with considerable overlap between different gender identities at the individual level. Hence, neither genetic variants nor neuroanatomic measures can be used to identify or predict an individual's gender identity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The evolutionary advantage of sexual reproduction lies in the huge increase in variation produced among individuals. The continuous distribution of gender identities in the population appears to be just one more aspect of sexual reproduction as a source of variability.</p>","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":" ","pages":"503883"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144562327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Jiménez Blanco, Ana María Gil Fenoy, Esther Aguilera Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Díez-Delgado Rubio
{"title":"Congenital aplasia cutis with unusual presentation.","authors":"Laura Jiménez Blanco, Ana María Gil Fenoy, Esther Aguilera Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Díez-Delgado Rubio","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":" ","pages":"503807"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144556138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lice: Be careful, not just on the head!","authors":"Aniza Giacaman, Francisca Mestre-Bauzá","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":" ","pages":"503810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144556139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene López-Ramos, Natalia Martín Iranzo, María José Carrasco Villanueva, Silvia García-Cobos, Verónica Casquero-García
{"title":"Study of an outbreak of impetigo due to methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus resistant to topical antibiotics.","authors":"Irene López-Ramos, Natalia Martín Iranzo, María José Carrasco Villanueva, Silvia García-Cobos, Verónica Casquero-García","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":" ","pages":"503812"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why must pediatricians also be scientists?","authors":"Alejandro Avila-Alvarez","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503882","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":" ","pages":"503882"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joana Baptista de Lima, José Banquart Leitão, Carla Zilhão, Sérgio Alves
{"title":"Recurrent ranulas: What is the diagnosis?","authors":"Joana Baptista de Lima, José Banquart Leitão, Carla Zilhão, Sérgio Alves","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":" ","pages":"503806"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144369705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Baena-Palomino, Ana Castellano-Martínez, Moisés Rodríguez-González
{"title":"Use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) in three adolescents with heart failure due to non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy","authors":"Carlos Baena-Palomino, Ana Castellano-Martínez, Moisés Rodríguez-González","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503802","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":"102 6","pages":"Article 503802"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144287447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julio César Moreno-Alfonso , Sharom Barbosa-Velásquez , Ada Molina Caballero , Alberto Pérez Martínez , María Concepción Yárnoz Irazábal
{"title":"Exploring the role of eosinophil cell indices in diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis","authors":"Julio César Moreno-Alfonso , Sharom Barbosa-Velásquez , Ada Molina Caballero , Alberto Pérez Martínez , María Concepción Yárnoz Irazábal","doi":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anpede.2025.503809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93868,"journal":{"name":"Anales de pediatria","volume":"102 6","pages":"Article 503809"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144276947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}