Anne Goriely is associate professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Anne Goriely
Associate professor of human genetics
University of Oxford
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Aging fathers, selfish testes and neurocognitive disorders
Certain mutations may hijack the normal mechanisms of sperm production, leading to an enrichment of mutant sperm in older fathers, and to the paternal-age effect in autism.
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