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In the case of armored scale insect chimerism, the bacteriome does have a copy of the paternal genome, and that copy is identical to the paternal genome in the rest of the embryo, so in that sense the two tissues do have a high relatedness similar to the high relatedness of full siblings under haplodiploidy.
Although the sex ratio among the children of the fathers we excluded from analysis was lower than among the children of those fathers in our analysis, the paternal PCB concentrations were similar.
The pattern of effects of both maternal and paternal serum PCB concentrations were not materially affected by simultaneously adjusting for maternal and paternal PCB levels, although the confidence intervals became wider because there were only 76 couples for whom we had blood analyzed from both parents.
The higher than expected sex ratios among the last children of mothers in our sample, as well as a decrease in this ratio as maternal PCB exposure increases, can be seen in the crude sex ratios by exposure quintile in table 3. We compared the sex ratio among the children born to parents in each quintile of serum PCB concentration to those in the lowest quintile, adjusting for the year of the child's birth, paternal and maternal age at the child's birth, the mother's parity, and whether the child had an older brother (Figure 3).
In this version of events, Clinton got sucked into an innocent "paternal" relationship (we're entering Woody Allen territory here) with a woman he supposedly characterized as "wide-eyed and young and I knew she got a thrill out of talking to me."
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