Age difference increased risk for autism – Helsingborgs Dagblad

“The risk was that greatest where one parent was in the middle age and the partner about 10 years younger or more,” he continues.

biggest risk were in couples where the father was between 35 and 44 years old and the mother of at least 10 years younger or in couples where the mother was in the 35-40 years old and the father at least ten years younger.

In addition to CI is also including Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, US, who conducted the study. The researchers analyzed more than 5.7 million children born between 1985 and 2004. They also followed up on the children diagnosed with autism until 2009. More than 30 900 children had received such a diagnosis.

The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.