Sequencing genome of entire family reveals parents give kids fewer gene mutations than was thought
Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 08:07
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the University of Utah and other institutions have sequenced for the first time the entire genome of a family, enabling them to accurately estimate the average rate at which parents pass genetic mutations to their offspring and also identify precise locations where parental chromosomes exchange information that creates new combinations of genetic traits in their children...