Even if everyone keeps telling you that you are the hidden portrait of your mother, a new American study published in the professional journal Nature genetics suggests that we use much more of the genetic capital inherited from our father than that of our mother. “This is an exceptional discovery that opens the door to a completely new exploration of human genetics,” said Professor Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, professor of genetics at the University of Carolina School of Medicine. of the North (United States).
So far, scientists have listed 95 genes that do not express themselves in the same way depending on whether they come from the DNA of the mother or the father. These genes and the mutations they can involve can influence our state of health. “In our study, we discovered that in addition to these genes, there are thousands of others which have a different effect depending on their parental origin” adds Professor Pardo-Manuel de Villena.
“We now know that mammals express more genetic variance from the father. We therefore now know that a bad genetic mutation leading to a disease will have different effects depending on whether it is inherited from the father or the mother” concludes the geneticist.
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