AUTISM PREVENTION FATHER BABIES 24-34 PATERNAL AGE IS KEY IN NON-FAMILIAL AUTISMVaccines

"It is very possible that PATERNAL AGE is the major predictor of(non-familial) autism." Harry Fisch, M.D., author "The Male Biological Clock". Sperm DNA mutates and autism, schizophrenia bipolar etc. results. What is the connection with autoimmune disorders? Having Type 1 diabetes, SLE,etc. in the family, also if mother had older father. NW Cryobank will not accept a sperm donor past 35th BD to minimize genetic abnormalities.VACCINATIONS also cause autism.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Older paternal age strongly increases the morbidity for schizophrenia in sisters of affected females.

Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2010 Aug 17. [Epub ahead of print]

Older paternal age strongly increases the morbidity for schizophrenia in sisters of affected females.
Perrin M, Harlap S, Kleinhaus K, Lichtenberg P, Manor O, Draiman B, Fennig S, Malaspina D.

Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.

Abstract
The effect of a family history of schizophrenia on the risk for this disorder in the offspring has rarely been examined in a prospective population cohort accounting for the sex of the proband and the first-degree relatives, and certainly not with respect to later paternal age. The influence of affected relatives on offspring risk of schizophrenia was estimated using Cox proportional hazards regression in models that accounted for sex, relation of affected first degree relatives and paternal age in the prospective population-based cohort of the Jerusalem Perinatal Schizophrenia Study. Of all first-degree relatives, an affected mother conferred the highest risk to male and female offspring among the cases with paternal age <35 years, however, female offspring of fathers >/=35 years with an affected sister had the highest risk (RR = 8.8; 95% CI = 3.9-19.8). The risk seen between sisters of older fathers was fourfold greater than the risk to sisters of affected females of younger fathers (RR = 2.2, 95% CI 0.7-6.7). The test for interaction was significant (P = 0.03). By contrast, the risk of schizophrenia to brothers of affected males was only doubled between older (RR = 3.3, 95% 1.6-6.6) and younger fathers (RR = 1.6, 95% CI 0.7-3.5). The most striking finding from this study was the very large increase in risk of schizophrenia to sisters of affected females born to older fathers. The authors speculate that the hypothesized paternally expressed genes on the X chromosome might play some role in these observations. (c) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

PMID: 20718003 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Paternal age increases the risk for autism in an Iranian population sample.

Mol Autism. 2010 Feb 22;1(1):2.

Paternal age increases the risk for autism in an Iranian population sample.
Sasanfar R, Haddad SA, Tolouei A, Ghadami M, Yu D, Santangelo SL.

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. ssantangelo@pngu.mgh.harvard.edu.

Abstract
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder which is known to have a strong genetic component and is most likely oligogenic. However, the necessary role of environmental factors has been well documented. Prior research suggests that parental characteristics, such as age and level of education, may be associated with a risk of autism. Parental age has been shown to be associated with many disorders, such as schizophrenia, childhood cancer and fetal death. However, results from studies of parental age and autism are inconsistent. METHODS: In the present study, we investigated the association of autism with parental age in 179 autism cases and 1611 matched cohort children from Iran. Each case was matched with nine cohort controls on parental education, sex, order of birth, consanguineous marriage, urbanism and province of residence. The Cox regression model was used to carry out conditional logistic regression on the matched data. RESULTS: There was a significant association between higher paternal age, but not maternal age, and an increasing risk of autism. An analysis of the combined effect of parental age and education also revealed that parents with higher education had an increased risk of having autistic children, with a dose-response effect of parental age. CONCLUSIONS: This study, which is the first epidemiological study of autism in Iran, provides evidence of the association of paternal age and risk of autism.

PMID: 20678245 [PubMed - in process]

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