Missing heritability: Paternal age effect mutations and selfish spermatogonia

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 589-

  Goriely, Anne ^a   Wilkie, Andrew O M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; GENE MUTATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MUTATION RATE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE EFFECT MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; PATERNAL AGE; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 77954691077     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2809-c1     Document Type: Letter

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