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Dr Fredrick Nindo, a bioinformatician, is a visiting postdoctoral research fellow at the Mediterranean Infection Institute & Institute for Research in Cancer and Aging, France. He answers some of the frequently asked question around genetics.
I am a 36-year-old woman and have no children, but I am planning on having some in a few years. Is it true that with advancing age I increase my chances of getting a child with Down’s syndrome or cerebral palsy?
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