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Research Finds Link Between Mother’s Age and Risk of Autism for Child
Cheree Cleghorn | February 9, 2010
“Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday.”
…”“The older the mother, the more the risk that the child will develop autism, regardless of whether the father is young or old,” said Irva Hertz-Picciotto of the University of California Davis MIND Institute, who worked on the study published in the journal Autism Research.”
Source: Reuters, Updated February 8, 2010
