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

maternal age effect

The adverse impact that ↑ age has on obstetric events: ↑ complication rate, ↑ fetal defects–possibly due to an unknown effect of aging on the uterus and eggs; ↑ frequency of non-disjunctional events in Down syndrome and other aneuploidies, as well as Prader-Willi syndrome, in which there is uniparental disomy of chromosome 15. See Elderly primigravida. Cf Paternal age. Maternal age & chromosome defects
 Age Trisomy 21 Others  <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