Advanced paternal age has been associated with increased schizophrenia risk in offspring before, but it has been difficult to disentangle the effects of age versus factors related to age. "The ...

Researchers developed a high-accuracy method to infer whether genetic variants come from the mother or father without needing ...

Advanced paternal age increases the risk in offspring of early-onset schizophrenia, a severe form of the disorder, according to a study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier.

In carriers of BRCA mutations, the mean age at diagnosis for ovarian cancer was 51 (range 21-70) and for breast cancer was 43 (range 24-78). But when they compared the mean age at diagnosis in the ...

In carriers of BRCA mutations, the mean age at diagnosis for ovarian cancer was 51 (range 21-70) and for breast cancer was 43 (range 24-78).

August 22, 2012 — Increasing paternal age at the time of conception increases the risk of de novo mutations appearing in the sperm that, when passed on to the offspring, increase the child's ...

This article originally appeared on Spectrum on May 23, 2016. The mutations that men accumulate in their sperm as they age don’t account for most of their increased risk of having a child with ...

Curr Opin Genet Dev, 12, 650-656. Kong, A. et al. (2012) Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk. Nature, 488, 471-475. Comment ...

In autism, gene mutations from the parents could be one of the many causes. But it's the father's genes, more than the mother's, that may be the bigger problem.

Disease-Causing Genetic Mutations In Sperm Increase With Men's Age Date: October 18, 2002 Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Summary: Scientists from the McKusick-Nathans Institute for ...

Advanced paternal age increases the risk in offspring of early-onset schizophrenia, a severe form of the disorder, according to a study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier.