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Last September I reported on a study indicating that older fathers were more likely than their younger peers to have children who have autism. The story elicited comments about the potential importance of this matter. Since then, I’ve corresponded with Leslie Feldman, who left comments on this and other posts about the topic. Ms. Feldman sent me a document that discusses the relationship between paternal age and the chances of offsrping having autism or schizophrenia.

Despite my sloth, I finally managed to review and format Ms. Feldman’s observations, and I am glad to make them available to readers of EBD Blog as a Web page. Ms. Feldman’s document is entitled, “Fathers’ Age as Contributor to Risk for Autism.” Interested readers may view the document, including references and links to many resources on this topic, by following this link or by clicking on the page in the side rail (look under the heading “pages”).

My thanks to Ms. Feldman for her patience with me in the process of publishing this document and, more importantly, for taking the time to assemble this important content so that it can be communicated to the readers of EBD Blog.