Open AccessLate paternity and stillbirth risk
Author(s) -
Paola Astolfi,
Antonio De Pasquale,
L. Zonta
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
human reproduction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446
H-Index - 226
eISSN - 1460-2350
pISSN - 0268-1161
DOI - 10.1093/humrep/deh449
Subject(s) - demography , odds ratio , offspring , confidence interval , medicine , ageing , advanced maternal age , logistic regression , incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , biology , genetics , fetus , physics , sociology , optics
The role of paternal ageing on the incidence of some genetic diseases in offspring depends on the hypothesis that spontaneous mutations accumulate due to continuous cell divisions during spermatogenesis. We examined the effect of paternal age on the complex multifactorial character, stillbirth.
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