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Older fathers 'put their child's health at risk'
Men who delay fatherhood may be putting their chances of having healthy children at risk because their sperm contains a 'biological clock,' a study has found.
Scientists already knew a man's reproductive ability declines with age as their sperm becomes less plentiful and active. But a new US study found that the genetic quality of sperm also worsens as a man gets older.
An examination of sperm DNA from volunteers aged between 22 and 80 showed that it became steadily more fragmented as age increased. DNA fragmentation is associated with greater infertility and a reduced chance of conceiving.
The sperm of older men is also more likely to carry the genetic mutation which causes achondroplasia, or dwarfism. Dwarfism is a disorder that affects bone growth, which occurs in about one in every 25,000 births. Affected individuals have very short arms and legs and seldom grow taller than about 4ft.
Research leader Dr Andrew Wyrobek said: "This study shows that men who wait until they're older to have children are not only risking difficulties conceiving, they could also be increasing the risk of having children with genetic problems."
The study is particularly worrying because there has been a 40 per cent increase in the number of men between 35 and 50 fathering children and a 20 per cent decrease in fathers under 30, since 1980.
'Gradual decline'
Previous research shows a woman's fertility can end abruptly around the time of the menopause. However, study co-author Dr Brenda Eskenazi said: "Our research suggests that men, too, have a biological time clock - only it is different. Men seem to have a gradual rather than an abrupt change in fertility and in the potential ability to produce viable healthy offspring."
Women who delay motherhood too long also risk having children with an extra chromosome - a problem known as trisomy. This can lead to Down's syndrome and other disorders associated with infertility, as well as physical and neurological abnormalities.
The findings were published in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
