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From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Older sperm
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:29:02 -0700
References: <2d6.81fc1a7.31b70305@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <2d6.81fc1a7.31b70305@aol.com>


Oh rats! :-)
Al

> wrote:

>_http://news.aol.com/science/story/_a/study-shows-older-sperm-lacks-quality/n2
>0060606021509990010?cid=911_
>(http://news.aol.com/science/story/_a/study-shows-older-sperm-lacks-quality/n20060606021509990010?cid=911)
>
>The "magic age" for the effect seems to be about 56....As I recall, the
>father-son study which showed no correlation between age of father and mutations
>in Y_DNA had only a couple of fathers this old.
>
>Anne
>
>

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