Common genetic disease linked to father's age

Friday, June 7, 2013 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan syndrome are so common; a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father's production of sperm carrying the disease trait.

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