The Male Biological Clock

The older a father is, the greater the chance his child will have autism.

By Victor Limjoco
Sep 21, 2006 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:17 AM

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New research suggests that children of older fathers are at a higher risk of having autism. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine epidemiologist Avi Reichenberg and his colleagues compared more than 300,000 parent-child records, and found that men older than 40 were nearly six times more likely to have children with autism than fathers under 30 years old.

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