Advanced paternal age is associated with impaired neurocognitive outcomes during infancy and childhood

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0303-0311

  Saha, Sukanta ^a   Barnett, Adrian G ^b   Foldi, Claire ^c   Burne, Thomas H ^a,c   Eyles, Darryl W ^a,c   Buka, Stephen L ^d   McGrath, John J ^a,c  

^a QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63549147533     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000040     Document Type: Article

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