Autism and Schizophrenia, Type 1 diabetes and MS Increase in incidence with increasing Paternal Age

Check it out. Search the blog for the research studies. Many genetic changes that are deleterious occur in offspring of older fathers or sons of women whose fathers were older at the birth. What about fibromyalgia and paternal age? Do women with fibromyalgia have fathers who were 32 or older when they were born?


Genetic Mutations Tied To Father in Most Cases



By NATALIE ANGIER
Published: May 17, 1994
WHEN it comes to parceling out blame for birth defects and genetic disorders, women have historically shouldered most of the burden, particularly older mothers who supposedly risked their offspring's well-being by letting their eggs sit around growing progressively more stale and chromosomally unstable.

By contrast, men have been seen as eternally fertile, able to father healthy children well into their dotage.

But growing evidence suggests that men, rather than women, may be the source of most new genetic mutations in the population, and thus may be responsible for the majority of congenital diseases that seem to come from nowhere. In addition, the older the man gets, the more likely his sperm is to carry genetic mutations.


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