Parental age and motor neuron disease.
A case-control approach was used to study the relationship between parental age and motor neuron disease (MND) in a nationally representative sample of men. [The method, involving a search for parents' records in the NHS Central Register, is new and may be of interest in other conditions where parental age is thought to play a part.] The parents of men who died of MND in 1979 were not older than the parents of sex, age and regionally standardised controls who died in the same year.
Hawkes
C H
CH
Department of Neurology, Ipswich Hospital, London, UK.
Goldblatt
P O
PO
Shewry
M
M
Fox
A J
AJ
D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008423:Maternal Age; D009046:Motor Neurons; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D010331:Paternal Age