Study: Older fathers bring higher autism risk

Men who become fathers in their 40s or older are much more likely to have autistic children than younger dads. A new study involved about 130,000 Israeli Jews born in the 1980s based on biographical information on Israeli boys and girls who at age 17 were being assessed for eligibility to serve in the Israeli military. Among them, 110 had been earlier found to have autism or related disorders which include a less severe condition called Asperger's syndrome. However, most of the affected children in the study had autism and the researchers said their results may not apply to Asperger's or other autism-like disorders. Those fathered by older men were almost six times more likely to have autism or related disorders than those fathered by men younger than 30, and more than one-and-a-half times more likely than children fathered by men ages 30-39. child-autism-parent-cafe.com

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