Parental Age Ups Rate of New Mutations Passed to Children

• By: Alla Katsnelson SPECTRUM
• October 1st, 2017
• fall 2017 issue, genetics, parents, research
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Men and women both transmit an increasing number of new mutations to their children as they age, according to a study published recently in Nature (Jónsson H. et al., 2017). The finding is based on an analysis of whole genomes from nearly 5,000 people. The increase in these ‘de novo’ mutations...