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Advanced paternal age at birth: phenotypic and etiologic associations with eating pathology in offspring.
Psychological medicine - 1 Apr 2014
Racine S E, Culbert K M, Burt S A, Klump K L
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BACKGROUND: Advanced paternal age at birth has been linked to several psychiatric disorders in offspring (e.g. schizophrenia) and genetic mechanisms are thought to underlie these associations. This study is the first to investigate whether advanced paternal age at birth is associated with eating disorder risk using a twin study design capable of examining both phenotypic and genetic associations. METHOD: In a...
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