Blame fat dads for cancer
27 June 2016 - 09:43
Women who are conceived when their father is overweight could be at a 30% higher risk of developing breast cancer, new research suggests. Scientists at Georgetown University in Washington DC found that obese male mice which mated with normal weight females produced female pups that had an increased chance of developing breast cancer than pups from non-obese fathers.
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