Genetic analysis of the relationship between parental age and risk of psychiatric disorders

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1103418

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Age-related de novo mutations are widely assumed to explain the association between advanced paternal age and risk of psychiatric illness, but this mechanism cannot explain the known risk to offspring of teenaged parents. We will investigate an alternative hypothesis for risk to children due to parental age, which is that elevated liability to mental illness, arising from shared genetic factors between parents and offspring, leads to delayed, or conversely teenage, parenthood.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $301,012.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

age-associated | association studies | de novo mutations | genetic analysis | psychiatric disorders

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