deCODE Study Reveals an Ancient Achilles Heel in the Human Genome
Reykjavik, Iceland (ots/PRNewswire) - - The generation of new mutations is a key driver of evolution but also of susceptibility to rare diseases - Fathers pass on four times as many new mutations as mothers do, but the maternal contribution is particularly strong in 10% of the genome that is prone to double-strand breaks in the helix structure of DNA - These regions have been mutational hotspots for a very long time, and ...
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