ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2013
Parental age and risk of autism spectrum disorders in a Finnish national birth cohort.
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- Building a family at advanced parental age: a systematic review on the risks and opportunities for parents and their offspring.Human reproduction open · 2023Review
- A phenotypic spectrum of autism is attributable to the combined effects of rare variants, polygenic risk and sex.Nature genetics · 2022Article
- Effect of advanced parental age on pregnancy outcome and offspring health.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2022Review
- Association between paternal age at childbirth and autism spectrum disorder in offspring.Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2022Article
- Expression analysis of selected genes involved in tryptophan metabolic pathways in Egyptian children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and learning disabilities.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The risk of psychiatric disorders among Finnish ART and spontaneously conceived children: Finnish population-based register study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Association of Grandparental and Parental Age at Childbirth With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Parental age effects on neonatal white matter development.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Article
- Neurological Diseases With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Role of ASD Risk Genes.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Heritable Variation, With Little or No Maternal Effect, Accounts for Recurrence Risk to Autism Spectrum Disorder in Sweden.Biological psychiatry · 2018Article
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- Fathers' Orientation to their Children's Autism Diagnosis: A Grounded Theory Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Advantageous developmental outcomes of advancing paternal age.Translational psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
Aim of the study was to examine the associations between parental age and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Data were based on the FIPS-A (Finnish Prenatal Study of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders), a case-control study with a total of 4,713 cases with childhood autism (n = 1,132), Asperger's syndrome (n = 1,785) or other pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) (n = 1,796), which were ascertained from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register. Controls were selected from the Finnish Medical Birth Register. Conditional logistic regression models were used for statistical analyses. Advanced paternal age (35-49 years) was associated with childhood autism in offspring, whereas advanced maternal age was associated with both Asperger's syndrome and PDD in offspring (35 years or more and 40 years or more, respectively). Teenage motherhood (19 years or less) was associated with PDD in offspring. The main finding was that maternal and paternal ages were differentially associated with ASD subtypes. In addition to advanced parental age, teenage pregnancy seems to incur a risk for PDD in offspring.
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