New observations on maternal age effect on germline de novo mutations

The study of germline mutations has been greatly enhanced by massive parallel sequencing technologies. Here the authors use deep sequencing data from nearly 700 parent-child trios to show maternal age has a small but significant correlation with the number of de novomutations in the offspring.

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Main Authors: Wendy S. W. Wong, Benjamin D. Solomon, Dale L. Bodian, Prachi Kothiyal, Greg Eley, Kathi C. Huddleston, Robin Baker, Dzung C. Thach, Ramaswamy K. Iyer, Joseph G. Vockley, John E. Niederhuber
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/1d2fddf6abe04f2888ec30cf8d40ace3
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