Why the biological clock? Study says aging reduces centromere cohesion, disrupts reproduction

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 13:56 in Biology & Nature

University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an abnormal number of chromosomes during reproductive cell division.

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