Paternal age, de novo mutations, and offspring health? New directions for an ageing problem.

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This Directions article examines the mechanisms by which a father's age impacts the health and wellbeing of his children. Such impacts are significant and include adverse birth outcomes, dominant genetic conditions, neuropsychiatric disorders, and a variety of congenital developmental defects. As well as age, a wide variety of environmental and lifestyle factors are also known to impact offspring health via...

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