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Fathers bequeath more mutations as they age
Access & Citations
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- 4819
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- 12
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Online attention
- 361 tweeters
- 11 blogs
- 88 Facebook pages
- 31 Google+ users
- 19 news outlets
- 15 Redditors
- 4 Pinterest
- 1 Wikipedia page
- 64 Mendeley
This article is in the 99th percentile (ranked 182nd) of the 209,834 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 97th percentile (ranked 22nd) of the 974 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature
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Mentions in news and blogs
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Children with older fathers have more genetic abnormalities
COSMOS magazine -
Older Fathers Pass On More Mutations To Children
Scientific American -
Children with older fathers have more genetic abnormalities
COSMOS magazine -
News story from Los Angeles Times on Wednesday 22 August 2012
Los Angeles Times -
Ancient Human-Chimp Link Pushed Back Millions of Years
National Geographic -
Science online, light-eating aphids edition
Denim and Tweed -
Older Dads
The Spittoon -
New Brain Clearing System Found – News Round-Up: August 2012 3rd Edition
The Amazing World of Psychiatry: A Psychiatry Blog -
More mutations in children of older fathers, and how it relates to human origins
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog -
De novo mutations, older dads and autism (again)
Questioning Answers -
Looking for cause-and-effect in the curious case of older fathers and autism
Genetics and Your Health Blog -
Now It’s Everybody’s Fault
Adam Turner
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