Some authorities have suggested that antidepressants during pregnancy may increase the rate of autism among offspring.
But studies elsewhere had similar findings, she said: a threefold increase in schizophrenia among offspring of older fathers.
Sexual reproduction, on the other hand, provides possibilities for variation among offspring and thus assists evolution by allowing new pairs of genes to combine in offspring.
It was employed in aerial defoliation in S. Vietnam & was found to cause birth defects among offspring of Vietnamese women exposed to it.
To examine whether parental incarceration is significantly associated with a number of sleep and eating behaviors among offspring during early childhood.
A reduction in allelic richness (Ar) was identified from broodstock to offspring at 1 dph, (Ar was 3.94 among broodstock and 3.52 among offspring sampled).
Investigators have reported associations between maternal urinary phthalates and altered anogenital distance (AGD), a marker of in utero androgen activity, among offspring.
To evaluate the incidence of congenital malformations among offspring of mothers who conceived with clomiphene citrate (CC) or with letrozole treatment for infertility.
Female selection however, has been shown to help increase genetic diversity among offspring.
Indeed, a high prevalence of FMS was observed among offspring of FMS mothers.
Note that correlations among offspring in such circumstances would not vanish and they will be included in the test statistic.
