Men breathing in high levels of industrial pollutants and car exhaust may be passing pollution-linked genetic mutations along to their children, a new study claims.In a study pitting city mice against country mice, Canadian researchers found that mice pups born downwind of industrial plants and busy highways displayed double the amount of genetic mutations compared to their country cousins.Furthermore, those gene mutations appeared to originate with the father, suggesting that sperm is particularly vulnerable to pollution-linked DNA damage.
