Category Archives: Mutation

Every few years I check to see if the great mutation accumulation controversy has resolved itself. I don’t know if anyone calls it that, but that’s what I think of it as. There are two major issues that matter here: mutation rates are a critical parameter in evolutionary models, and, mutation accumulation over time matters […]

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By now you have probably read in The New York Times, or on the blogs, about the new paper in Nature which reports on the empirical trend toward the children of older fathers carrying more de novo mutations. Really all you need is this figure:

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Razib Khan