A mechanism for inheriting radiation-induced DNA damage.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Radiation-damaged paternal DNA has been found to cause embryos of the second generation of nematode worms, but not the first, to die. The proposed mechanisms help to explain the observed lack of such an effect in humans.