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Transplantation experiments in mice reveal that the increased risk of congenital heart disease in the pups of older mothers is not conferred by ageing eggs, but by the mothers' age, and can be mitigated by exercise. See Letter p.230

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Figure 1: The maternal influence.

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  1. Marc-Phillip Hitz is at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK, and at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein and the Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany.,

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  2. Gregor Andelfinger is in the Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte Justine Research Center, Université de Montréal, Montreal H3T 1C5, Canada.,

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Hitz, MP., Andelfinger, G. Race for healthy hearts. Nature 520, 160–161 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14379

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