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This is how the father’s age influences the risk of illness in his children.

Sperm from older fathers are more likely to transmit new mutations that would cause congenital disorders to their babies, but there are other mutations that are independent of paternal age.

Newborn ABC

02/27/2024

Updated at 07:48h.

The link between paternal age and rare congenital disorders is not new. But now research has seen that it is more complex than scientists had thought.

And, although it has long been known that older parents have…

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