Elevated germline mutation rate in teenage fathers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1803, 2015, Pages

  Forster, Peter ^a,b   Hohoff, Carsten ^a   Dunkelmann, Bettina ^c   Schürenkamp, Marianne ^d   Pfeiffer, Heidi ^d   Neuhuber, Franz ^c   Brinkmann, Bernd ^a  

^a Institute of Forensic Genetics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Immortality; Molecular clock; Oogenesis; Spermatogenesis; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; CELL ORGANELLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MUTATION; SPERM;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; EUROPE; FATHER; FEMALE; GERMLINE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MOTHER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; EUROPE; FATHERS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MOTHERS; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84923171778     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2898     Document Type: Article

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