Saturday, September 9, 2023

advanced paternal age is a risk factor for autism & schizophrenia

 Advanced paternal age as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: a translational study | Molecular Autism | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

Abstract (Krug et al., 2020 Molecular Autism, article # 54)

Advanced paternal age (APA) is a risk factor for several neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and schizophrenia.... This study demonstrates associations between APA and social behaviors across species. They might be driven by changes in the expression of microRNAs and/or epigenetic changes regulating neuronal plasticity, leading to brain morphological changes and FRONTO-HYPOCAMPAL CONNECTIVITY, a network which has been implicated in social interaction.

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