Transcriptomic changes in the frontal cortex associated with paternal age
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Transcriptomic changes in the frontal cortex associated with paternal age
BACKGROUND Advanced paternal age is robustly associated with several human neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly autism. The precise mechanism(s) mediating the paternal age effect are not known, but they are thought to involve the accumulation of de novo (epi)genomic alterations. In this study we investigate differences in the frontal cortex transcriptome in a mouse model of advanced paterna...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Autism
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2040-2392
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-24