Children's exposure to violence harms DNA, study says - The Seattle Times

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Children's exposure to violence harms DNA, study says - The Seattle Times

Posted on April 26^th, 2012, 4:00 am

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Children's exposure to violence harms DNA, study says
The Seattle Times
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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