XX protection against age-related mutations

Posted by on July 20, 2016 1:44 pm
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Researchers have put the ‘unguarded X hypothesis’ to the test and confirmed that differences in lifespan between the sexes, a widespread phenomenon in nature, may indeed be due to the protective effect of having two copies of the X chromosome.

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