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Study: Violence affects DNA - The Keene Sentinel

Posted on April 29th, 2012, 10:00 am


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Study: Violence affects DNA
The Keene Sentinel
And the more types of violence a child had experienced, the faster his or her telomeres eroded, said study leader Idan Shalev, who published the findings Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Telomeres are strands of protective DNA that cap the ...

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