"Selfish spermatogonial selection": A novel mechanism for the association between advanced paternal age and neurodevelopmental disorders

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 599-608

  Goriely, Anne ^a   McGrath, John J ^a   Hultman, Christina M ^a   Wilkie, Andrew O M ^a   Malaspina, Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CELL CYCLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; FGFR1 GENE; FGFR2 GENE; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELFISH SPERMATOGONIAL SELECTION; TESTIS; AGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

AGE FACTORS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PATERNAL AGE; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84882284132     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12101352     Document Type: Review

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