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Jessica Gronsbell1, Hilary Thurston2, Lillian Dong3

  • 1Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X6, ON, Canada. j.gronsbell@utoronto.ca.

Biology of sex differences
|December 31, 2025
PubMed
概括

计算表型化使用算法从电子健康记录 (EHR) 中推断性别,改善代表性不足的群体的数据. 然而,这种方法在潜在的滥用方面引发了重大的伦理和方法问题.

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