Inversion Gene Pattern Increases Male Fertility
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Researchers working in Iceland said Sunday that they had identified a genetic pattern that made some Europeans more fertile. The genetic pattern, known as an inversion, is a stretch of the DNA code that runs backward in people who carry it. Usually, such rearrangements of a chromosome are harmful to carriers. But this one causes carriers to have more children each generation, the researchers reported in the journal Nature Genetics.
