Paternal age effect mutations and selfish spermatogonial selection: causes and consequences for human disease.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on February 10, 2012

Authors

Anne Goriely1, Andrew O M Wilkie

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1: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. anne.goriely@imm.ox.ac.uk

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