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The “faulty male” hypothesis: implications for evolution and disease

2023-05-11

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Biological differences between males and females lead to many differences in physiology, disease, and overall health. One of the most prominent disparities is in the number of germline mutations passed to offspring: human males transmit three times as many mutations as do females. While the classic explanation for this pattern invokes differences in post-puberty germline replication between the sexes, recent whole...

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Literature Corpus work: db902d16-b29b-52d1-8e1c-9e4268c96849
DOI: 10.32942/x28p4h

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