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Delayed fatherhood linked to Schizophrenic kids

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the totally-getting-snipped-for-my-birthday-this-year dept.

robingHood writes:

"New Scientist Magazine reports on findings that suggest that delaying fatherhood may increase the risk of fathering children with disorders such as Apert syndrome, Autism and Schizophrenia. The article reports that 'although there is a big increase in risk for many disorders, it's a big increase in a very small risk. A 40-year-old is about 50 per cent more likely to father an autistic child than a 20-year-old is, for instance, but the overall risk is only about 1 per cent to start with.' In other words: time to start mating before those tadpoles turn into toads."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Friday February 21 2014, @01:11AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday February 21 2014, @01:11AM (#4093)

    I guess you didn't read TFS.

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  • (Score: 1) by iWantToKeepAnon on Friday February 21 2014, @11:33AM

    by iWantToKeepAnon (686) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:33AM (#4361) Homepage
    Heh, you must be new here .... wait, we are all new here. :-]
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