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Published online 28 August 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070827-1
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Selfish cells take over testes
Clumps of mutant sperm-making cells help to explain Apert syndrome.
Researchers have delved into the human testis to help explain why fathers are so likely to pass a disease-causing mutation to their children.
Apert syndrome, which causes an abnormal formation of the skull, fingers and toes, affects roughly 1 in 150,000 live births.
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