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Exposure to violence in children harms DNA, study says - Boston Herald

Posted on April 25th, 2012, 10:00 pm


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Exposure to violence in children harms DNA, study says
Boston Herald
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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