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Are you losing your Y chromosomes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Vince" data-source="post: 228626" data-attributes="member: 843"><p>Male smokers might want to start worrying about the tiniest and "manliest" of the 46 chromosomes — the Y chromosome. A <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1262092" target="_blank">new study</a> published today in <em>Science </em>indicates that men who smoke experience a higher number of cell mutations, which have been proven to lead to the loss of Y chromosomes, in their blood cells than men who don’t. This preliminary finding is alarming because the same group of researchers <a href="http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n6/full/ng.2966.html" target="_blank">previously linked </a>the loss of Y chromosomes in blood to shorter life expectancies in men and an increase in non-blood-related cancers.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/4/7333717/y-chromosome-smoking-cancer-death[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vince, post: 228626, member: 843"] Male smokers might want to start worrying about the tiniest and "manliest" of the 46 chromosomes — the Y chromosome. A [URL='http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1262092']new study[/URL] published today in [I]Science [/I]indicates that men who smoke experience a higher number of cell mutations, which have been proven to lead to the loss of Y chromosomes, in their blood cells than men who don’t. This preliminary finding is alarming because the same group of researchers [URL='http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n6/full/ng.2966.html']previously linked [/URL]the loss of Y chromosomes in blood to shorter life expectancies in men and an increase in non-blood-related cancers. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/4/7333717/y-chromosome-smoking-cancer-death[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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