Risk of psychiatric illness from advanced paternal age is not predominantly from de novo mutations

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 718-724

  Gratten, Jacob ^a   Wray, Naomi R ^a   Peyrot, Wouter J ^b   McGrath, John J ^a,c   Visscher, Peter M ^a   Goddard, Michael E ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MOSAICISM; MUTATION RATE; PARAMETERS; PATERNAL AGE; PENETRANCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; AGE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MUTATION; RISK FACTOR;

GENETIC MARKER;

AGE FACTORS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PATERNAL AGE; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84969790789     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3577     Document Type: Article

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