Exposure to violence in children harms DNA, study says - Los Angeles Times

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Exposure to violence in children harms DNA, study says - Los Angeles Times

Posted on April 25^th, 2012, 4:00 am

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Exposure to violence in children harms DNA, study says
Los Angeles 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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