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Björn Gylemo

Postdoc

Interested in the genetic contribution to sex-bias in disease. Investigating X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) in humans, primarily XCI escape fidelity and constitutional XCI skew. Currently exploring long-read sequencing.

Links to more information

For more information about my research see The Nestor lab webpage or .

Publications

2025

Bj枚rn Gylemo (2025) (Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary)
Bj枚rn Gylemo, Maike Bensberg, Colm Nestor (2025) eLIFE, Vol. 14, Article RP102701 (Article in journal)
Jeremie Subrini, Wazeer Varsally, Irina Balaguer Balsells, Maike Bensberg, Georgios Sioutas, Obah Ojarikre, Valdone Maciulyte, Bj枚rn Gylemo, Katharine Crawley, Katherine Courtis, Dirk G. de Rooij, James M. A. Turner (2025) Science, Vol. 387, p. 393-400 (Article in journal)

2024

Bj枚rn Gylemo, Maike Bensberg, Viktoria Hennings, Christina Lundqvist, Alessandro Camponeschi, D贸ra Goldmann, Huan Zhang, Aida Selimovic, Antonio Lentini, Olov Ekwall, Colm Nestor (2024) Nature Communications, Vol. 15, Article 10527 (Article in journal)

2020

Karolos Douvlataniotis, Maike Bensberg, Antonio Lentini, Bj枚rn Gylemo, Colm Nestor (2020) Science Advances, Vol. 6, Article eaay3335 (Article in journal)

Research group

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The Nestor Lab

Our research aims to understand the function of DNA methylation in the biology of human CD4+ T-cells, and use this knowledge to dissect its role in disease.

News

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Shedding light on sex differences in human disease

Researchers made an unexpected discovery while investigating genetically unique women. Their insights advance our understanding of our most enigmatic chromosome, the X chromosome.

Organisation

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Division of Children's and Women's Health (BKH)

The Division of Children鈥檚 and Women鈥檚 Health consists of a number of different research and educational areas - obstetrics / gynecology and pediatrics.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MEDFAK)

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences conducts research and education within medicine, healthcare and public health.