Biological Clock Tolls for Men Too - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
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LIVERMORE, Calif., June 7 — As healthy men age, they become less likely to father a successful pregnancy, according to investigators here. Aging men have an increased risk for having children with musculoskeletal and craniofacial mutations.
Evidence shows that the genetic quality of sperm deteriorates significantly with age, wrote Andrew J. Wyrobek, Ph.D., of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories here, and colleagues, in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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