A mechanism for inheriting radiation-induced DNA damage

Ronald Cutler () and Jan Vijg ()

Nature, 2023, vol. 613, issue 7943, 249-250

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.

Keywords: Developmental biology; Genetics; Molecular biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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