|Articles|August 23, 2019

Associated risk of medical comorbidites and advanced paternal age

Author(s)Ranjith Ramasamy, MD, Jaden Kohn, MD, MPH, Jeffrey K. Than, BS

In addition to neurocognitive disorder and chomosomal aneuploidies, advanced paternal age has been associated with an increased risk of congenital anomalies and cancer in offspring.

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