Admittedly wouldn’t have clicked otherwise. 100% click bait title.
This is why I love HN. These comments allow me to not click.
Not directly related to fruit flies, but older fathers are more likely to have autistic children.
And downs syndrome.
Down syndrome correlates to mother's age more; autism correlates more to father's age.
Yes, the extra chromosome 21 comes from the mother in approximately 90% of cases.
Plausibly because men with some autistic attributes find it harder to form long-term relationships until they've got more experience than those without.
Safe to say that if a university’s PR team releases an article, it’s at least 10x exaggerated if not straight up misleading.