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the hypothesis that female immunity evolved to compensate for fetal immune evasion during pregnancy, producing excess autoimmunity when pregnancies are few.

In obstetrics, pregnancy compensation hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that female immunity evolved to compensate for fetal immune evasion during pregnancy, producing excess autoimmunity when pregnancies are few. This meaning comes from Natri (2019) in Trends in Genetics.[1]

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References

Natri, H., Garcia, A. R., Buetow, K. H., Trumble, B. C., & Wilson, M. A. (2019). The Pregnancy Pickle: Evolved Immune Compensation Due to Pregnancy Underlies Sex Differences in Human Diseases. Trends in Genetics, 35(7), 478-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2019.04.008

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