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Leukocyte Telomere Length and the Father's Age Enigma: Implications for Population Health and for Life Course
4 Feb 2013
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What are the implications for population health of the demographic trend toward increasing paternal age at conception (PAC) in modern societies? We propose that the effects of older PAC are likely to be broad and harmful in some domains of health but beneficial in others. Harmful effects of older PAC have received the most attention. Thus, for example, older PAC is associated with an increased risk of offspring...
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