Anne Goriely

Associate professor of human genetics
University of Oxford

Anne Goriely is associate professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Spectrum

By Anne Goriely

24 September 2013

7 min read

Aging fathers, selfish testes and neurocognitive disorders

Certain mutations may hijack the normal mechanisms of sperm production, leading to an enrichment of mutant sperm in older fathers, and to the paternal-age effect in autism.

Spectrum

Aging fathers, selfish testes and neurocognitive disorders

By Anne Goriely

24 September 2013 | 7 min read

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