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SUBMITTER: de Kluiver H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5412832 | biostudies-other | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
de Kluiver Hilde H Buizer-Voskamp Jacobine E JE Dolan Conor V CV Boomsma Dorret I DI
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics 20161022 3
We review the hypotheses concerning the association between the paternal age at childbearing and childhood psychiatric disorders (autism spectrum- and attention deficit/hyperactive disorder) and adult disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar-, obsessive-compulsive-, and major depressive disorder) based on epidemiological studies. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the paternal age effect. We discuss the four main-not mutually exclusive-hypotheses. These are the de novo mutation hypothesis ...[more]