"Paternal Age" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Age of the biological father.
| Descriptor ID |
D010331
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.700
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| Concept/Terms |
Paternal Age- Paternal Age
- Age, Paternal
- Ages, Paternal
- Paternal Ages
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Paternal Age".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paternal Age" by people in Profiles.
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Fathers in the United States Are Getting Older. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Aug 01; 7(8):e2428062.
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Transgenerational effects of paternal exposures: the role of germline de novo mutations. Andrology. 2025 Jan; 13(1):101-118.
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Should we be worried about advanced paternal age? Fertil Steril. 2020 08; 114(2):259-260.
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Paternal age in rhesus macaques is positively associated with germline mutation accumulation but not with measures of offspring sociability. Genome Res. 2020 06; 30(6):826-834.
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Advanced paternal age does not affect embryo aneuploidy following blastocyst biopsy in egg donor cycles. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2019 Oct; 36(10):2039-2045.
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Infertility in the Aging Male. Curr Urol Rep. 2018 May 17; 19(7):54.
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Advanced parental age as risk factor for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results from studies of the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium. Eur J Epidemiol. 2018 Oct; 33(10):965-976.
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Reproductive genetics and the aging male. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2018 Jun; 35(6):933-941.
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Age-related alterations in the genetics and genomics of the male germ line. Fertil Steril. 2017 02; 107(2):319-323.
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The role of advanced paternal age in modern reproductive medicine. Asian J Androl. 2016 May-Jun; 18(3):425.