IVF ART A negative correlation identified between paternal age and art outcome: is there a male biological clock ticking?

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.368
Copyright © 2007 American Society for Reproductive Medicine Published by Elsevier Inc.

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A negative correlation identified between paternal age and art outcome: is there a male biological clock ticking?

M. Lunaa, J. Barritta, N. Bar-Chamaa, A.B. Coppermana, T. Mukherjeea and L. Grunfelda
aReproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
P-13. Available online 9 September 2007.




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Yet nagging concerns have prompted a flurry of new studies, a number of which were presented at the ASRM conference. Most are disturbing in some way; none seem conclusive; a few are contradictory. In what will probably emerge as one of the more significant, Mary Croughan of the University of California, San Francisco, has received that rare thing in this field—federal funding—to track the development of IVF children and compare it to a cohort group of naturally conceived children. At work for more than a year now, Croughan presented preliminary research that showed an increased risk of certain birth defects, cognitive delays, and behavioral problems among IVF children; to date, her only cases of ADD and autism are in the IVF kids.