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Cereal-induced gender selection? Most likely a multiple testing false positive

2009; Royal Society; Volume: 276; Issue: 1660 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.2008.1405

1471-2954

S. Stanley Young, Heejung Bang, Kutluk Oktay,

Genetically Modified Organisms Research

The recent paper by [Mathews et al . (2008)][1] with a provocative title ‘You are what your mother eats’ generated a lot of attention in the press and over 50 000 Google hits putting forth the genetically implausible claim that women who eat breakfast cereal are more likely to have a boy child