{"id":72740,"date":"2017-09-20T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/fathers-pass-on-four-times-as-many-new-genetic-mutations-as-mothers-study"},"modified":"2017-09-20T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:02:33","slug":"fathers-pass-on-four-times-as-many-new-genetic-mutations-as-mothers-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/fathers-pass-on-four-times-as-many-new-genetic-mutations-as-mothers-study","title":{"rendered":"Fathers pass on four times as many new genetic mutations as mothers \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fathers-pass-on-four-times-as-many-new-genetic-mutations-as-mothers-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers studied 14,000 Icelanders and found that men passed on one new mutation for every eight months of age, compared with women who passed on a new mutation for every three years of age.<\/p>\n<p>The figures mean that a child born to 30-year-old parents would, on average, inherit 11 new mutations from the mother, but 45 from the father.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/sep\/20\/fathers-pass-on-four-times-as-many-new-genetic-mutations-as-mothers-study\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/sep\/20\/fathers-pass...hers-study<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers studied 14,000 Icelanders and found that men passed on one new mutation for every eight months of age, compared with women who passed on a new mutation for every three years of age. The figures mean that a child born to 30-year-old parents would, on average, inherit 11 new mutations from the mother, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}