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Maternal mutation in trans

Jonathan B Weitzman

Genome Biology 2001, 2:spotlight-20010215-01 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20010215-01

Published: 15 February 2001

Experiments with irradiated mice show that damage to DNA in the paternal genome is hazardous for the maternally derived genome.