Table 1.

Genes showing significant dimorphic expression in the three brain regions

Genes	Male/femalea biased	p-value*
		Forebrain	Midbrain	Hindbrain
c-fos	Male	ns	0.0087	ns
cyp19a1b	Female	ns	ns	0.0090
dio2	Male	0.0017	0.0004	0.0256
esr1	Female	0.027	ns	ns
esr2b	Female	0.0166	ns	ns
gabbr1a	Male	ns	ns	0.0211
gabbr1b	Male	ns	ns	0.0185
igf1	Male	<0.0001	ns	ns
mtf	Female	0.0045	ns	ns
ptgds	Female	ns	ns	0.0007
ptgs2b	Female	0.0235	ns	ns
sirt1	Female	0.0007	ns	ns
sod1	Female	0.0121	ns	ns

ns not significant.

^aFemales showed higher expression of eight genes and males showed higher expression of five genes.

* Student’s t test was performed to determine statistical significance.