CHICAGO - Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They found that a 40-year-old woman's risk of having a child later diagnosed with autism was 50 percent greater than that of a woman between 25 and 29. But being an older father -- 40 or older -- only contributes significantly to autism risk when the mother is under 30. "The older...
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