Association between paternal smoking at the time of pregnancy and the semen quality in sons.

BACKGROUND:Maternal smoking during pregnancy has repeatedly been associated with decreased sperm counts in sons. Nevertheless, our team recently detected a lower total sperm count in the sons of smoking fathers as compared to sons of non-smoking fathers. Since paternal and maternal tobacco smoking o...

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Main Authors: Jonatan Axelsson, Sally Sabra, Lars Rylander, Anna Rignell-Hydbom, Christian H Lindh, Aleksander Giwercman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6248964?pdf=render