Most mutations come from dad: New insights into age, height and sex reshape views of human evolution

Friday, August 24, 2012 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human genetic mutations to date.

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