maternal age effect
maternal age effect
The adverse impact that increased age in the mother has on obstetric events: increased complication rate; increased foetal defects, due to various effects of ageing on the uterus and eggs); and increased frequency of non-disjunctional chromosomal events in Down syndrome and other aneuploidies, as well as Prader-Willi syndrome, in which there is uniparental disomy of chromosome 15.Maternal age and chromosome defects
[Age—Frequency of trisomy 21 (Down syndrom)—Frequency of other defects]
▪ <20—1/1900—1/526
▪ 25—1/1200—1/476
▪ 30—1/885—1/384
▪ 35—1/365—1/178
▪ 40—1/109—1/63
▪ 45—1/32—1/18
▪ 49—1/12—1/7