ABSTRACT
18.l.1. Damon, A., Nuttall, R. L., Salber, E. J., Seltzer, C. C., and MacMahon, B., Tobacco smoke as a possible genetic mutagen: parental smoking and sex of children, Am. J. Epidemiol., 83, 530—536, 1966. Retrospective study of parents of 11,915 single white live-born infants born in Massachusetts during May to June 1963. Fathers or mothers who smoked did not have a significantly higher proportion of sons compared to nonsmokers. Results do not support the possibility that tobacco smoke is mutagenic since sex-linked mutations result in a greater proportion of sons born to fathers who smoke and a lower proportion of sons born to mothers who smoke.
