Saturday, September 08, 2007

38 of 42 patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive shows a significant paternal age effect

: J Med Genet. 1979 Apr;16(2):147-8.Links
Paternal age effect in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.Rogers JG, Chase GA.
Analysis by the method of Smith (1972) of birth order and parental age data collected from 38 of 42 patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive shows a significant paternal age effect. This finding among the sporadically occurring cases would support the proposition that this condition usually arises as a new dominant mutation.

PMID: 287808 [PubMed

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