title: Parental age and motor neuron disease.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Ipswich Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Hawkes
authors.forename: P O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Goldblatt
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shewry
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: 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