Diversity of sex-related mortality and outcome in preterm infants and neonates (S02)

• Subject Area: Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 515637292

The project will develop polygenic scores predictive for steroid hormones after birth. Thus, instead of adopting an essentialising binarism, the project will operationalise the concept of “sex diversity” as genetically related steroid hormone levels. Through the existing German Neonatal Network (GNN), blood samples will be drawn in the first 48 hours of life and, in collaboration with M06 and their service unit for steroid measurements, a hormonal profile will be established and the respective polygenic scores calculated.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1665: Sexdiversity - Determinants, meanings and implications of sex diversity in sociocultural, medical and biological landscapes
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Lübeck
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Göpel; Professorin Dr. Inke Regina Koenig