AN increasing trend of older fatherhood is potentially creating a global genetic disaster with devastating health consequences for offspring.

A major conference on human reproductive health in the Philippines will hear of mounting evidence that paternal aging is associated with a profound increase in sperm DNA damage that can burden offspring with mutational impacts, including schizophrenia, autism and childhood cancers.

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