Both mom and dad contribute their genes to their children in 50 and 50%. But the key question here is whether there is something specific that dad genetically inherits from his children. We discovered that you inherit it…
S was your smile, your eyes, your character, your taste for the box, your ability to chess …? We asked ourselves this big question and began to investigate. We found studies that some universities have carried out and we turned to a geneticist doctor to share his knowledge on the subject. We find very curious things that will surely surprise you.
Sperm formation
If you have fertility problems, your son may inherit them, since there are cases of male infertility related to genetic alterations in which the Y chromosome suffers from loss of genomic material, which prevents the proper development of sperm. If you underwent an assisted fertility process, go to a specialist to study the child and find out if he suffers from the same complication.
Hairy ears!
You inherit them exclusively from your son. The gene that contributes this characteristic is still not found, but according to Dr. Leonardo Mejía, director of Genosmédica, there are investigations that have revealed that the children of parents with a lot of hair in the ear hole also have it.
Some rare diseases, such as dwarfism
It is surprising that only 20% of people with dwarfism have inherited it from their parents; the rest (80%) have parents of average height, but it happens that they are the result of new mutations in the FGFR3 gene. Such a mutation is spontaneous at the moment of conception; the cause is unknown, the change is random.
However, according to information that we found on the Infogen portal (page specialized in birth defects in Mexico), some researchers have detected that the father’s age – when he is over 40 years old – is a factor that predisposes such a mutation in the sperm. It should be noted that the parents do not have the possibility of having another child with dwarfism and the siblings of the affected child are not carriers of the mutated gene.
STUDIES THAT TALK ABOUT YOUR INHERITANCE:
• Chapell Hill University of North Carolina in the United States revealed that parental inheritance influences diseases such as diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia, as they come from genes that have been discovered with more parental burden.
• The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, also in the United States, revealed that parental stress during the first years of their children’s lives leaves marks on their DNA that predisposes them to suffer problems related to insulin production, the hormone that regulates sugar levels, and with brain development. In addition, they observed that a stressed father influences the DNA of his girls more than that of his boys.