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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."
In males, the paternal genome is completely eliminated from most tissues very early in development—but it is never eliminated from the bacteriome.
We saw no effect of paternal serum PCB concentration on the odds of a male child (Figure 3b).
The NYT and WP go inside with a new survey of teen-agers indicating that low paternal involvement with a teen is a key determinant of adolescent substance abuse.
There remained no association between paternal PCB exposure and odds of a male child when we restricted our analysis to the frequent GLSCF consumers only (n = 92 fathers, 172 children).