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Are children of older fathers at risk for genetic disorders?

Andrologia - 1 Aug 2003

Jung A, Schuppe H-C, Schill W-B

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Genetic risks related to paternal age should be of interest to clinical andrologists counselling older men who wish to father a child. Theoretically, the number of (pre-meiotic) mitotic cell divisions during spermatogenesis and their remarkable increase with ageing compared with oogenesis would be in favour of genetic risks for the offspring of older men. But for numerical and structural chromosomal anomalies,...

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PMID: 12950402
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2003.00579.x

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