Opinion: How does XIST promote sex bias in autoimmune diseases?

Competing Interests: FA has received consulting fees and/or royalties from Celgene, Inova, Advise Connect Inspire, and Hillstar Bio, Inc. FA is an inventor on a licensed patent (US patent no. 14/617,412) and licensed provisional patent (US patent no. 62/481,158). The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.