Re: Having a baby after a seed implant

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

Bernie, Franz (you should be able to search PubMed!),



A search on "paternal age AND Down syndrome" got 117 hits.  (A surprise!?)



A half dozen with paternal age results in the abstract had 5 with no effect,

and one that did, i.e,:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list

_uids=7619937&dopt=Abstract

(Listed as U.Wisc-Madison Sch of Med :-).



NOTE:  Also father's age had an effect at <20 years  -  hormesis?! :-)



Regards, Jim

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>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Franz Schoenhofer wrote:

>> 

>>> These are the facts. The chance of genetic defects like

>>> mongolism is increasing not only with the age of the mother, but with the

>>> age of the father as well.

>> 

>> --Is there a reference on age of father affecting mongolism? I

>> know about it affecting other genetic defects, but had not heard about

>> mongolism from father's age.

> 

> Dear Bernie,

> 

> The woman I was once married to and had three children with worked in a

> cytogenetic laboratory, where amniocenthesis was carried out and couples

> with genetic defects in their family were adviced. From this time - this was

> before my three children, now aged 23, 21 and 20, were born, I remember that

> first information came along that not only the age of the mother but to a

> lesser extent the age of the father played a role. This was the basis for my

> comment. I do not have any references from that time. Because of your

> question I tried to conduct a research on the internet, which I can only do

> from search engines like yahoo or altavista. I found a few results stating

> that only the age of the mother was of concern and as well a few, that

> mentioned the influence of the fathers age. I have no idea, how trustworthy

> these sites are. I do not have access to medical data bases, but I suppose

> it should be easy to retrieve from them some information. If somebody would

> search for it, I would be interested in the results.

> 

> Best regards,

> 

> Franz

> 

> 

> 

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