摘要目的 探讨在汉族人群中生父生育年龄与子女罹患精神分裂症风险的相关性.方法 收集351例精神分裂症患者与199名健康志愿者进行病例对照研究.将患者生父母生育年龄分组,以26～30岁组作为参照组,分别对生父母生育年龄的不同组别进行分类变量的Logistic回归分析,并予被试年龄、性别、生母或生父生育年龄等进行校正.结果 校正后,与生育年龄在26~30岁的父亲相比,31~35岁、36~40岁、≥41岁3个年龄组父亲子女罹患精神分裂症的OR值分别为3.834、8.805和11.619(P<0.05);父亲生育年龄≤25岁时,子女罹患精神分裂症的OR值为0.877(P>0.05).生母各生育年龄组P值无统计学意义.结论 生父生育年龄与子女罹患精神分裂症显著相关;生父生育年龄越大,子女罹患精神分裂症的风险越高.推测这一风险作用的生物学机制是随着男性年龄的增长,生殖细胞的分化成熟过程中会不断积累新发突变或父系基因印迹异常.

abstractsObjective To investigate whether advanced paternal age is related to an increased risk of schizophrenia in Chinese Han population. Methods A case-control design study was performed. Three hundred and fifty-one patients with schizophrenia and 199 unrelated healthy volunteers were recruited. By using Logistic regression, paternal age was divided into five categories, and maternal age into four categories. Setting the paternal age of 26-30 years as reference, the OR, P values and 95% CI of the other paternal age categories were analyzed, respectively. The participant's sex, age and parental age at birth were used as covariants for adjusting confounding effects. Results The OR for schizophrenia in offspring whose paternal age at birth of 31-35 years, 36-40 years, and ≥41 years categories were 3.834, 8.805, and 11.619 respectively. The advanced maternal age had no significant effects on the risk for schizophrenia in offspring. Conclusion The advanced paternal age was associated with elevated risk for schizophrenia in offspring among a Han Chinese population. Putative biological mechanisms may include accumulated de novo mutations and alterations in epigenetic regulations with aging in spermatogenesis.