Like Father, Like Child? Paternal Age at Birth and Offspring's Facial Asymmetry and Distinctiveness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10455359" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10455359 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=gnL7qC7Vxv" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=gnL7qC7Vxv</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym14020344" target="_blank" >10.3390/sym14020344</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Like Father, Like Child? Paternal Age at Birth and Offspring's Facial Asymmetry and Distinctiveness
Original language description
Paternal age at birth, a potential proxy of mutation load transmitted to the offspring, has previously been related to the offspring's health, biological condition and reproductive potential. As higher facial asymmetry and distinctiveness serve as putative markers of the lower genetic quality of an individual, we hypothesize that more advanced paternal age at birth will be related to children's higher levels of facial asymmetry and distinctiveness. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study evaluating the link between paternal age at birth and facial asymmetry in offspring. Based on archived photographs of 159 children born within 47 Polish families, we have conducted facial geometric morphometric measurements and calculated the levels of facial asymmetry and distinctiveness. The relationship between paternal age at birth and the offspring's facial features was explored with the use of Bayesian Linear Mixed-effects Models, controlling for sex, age and birth order of the offspring, and maternal age at child's birth. No associations between paternal age at birth and facial asymmetry or distinctiveness in children were found. The lack of such a relationship might be a result of the potentially insufficient influence of newly accumulated paternal mutations affecting the offspring's phenotype or higher importance of maternal (prenatal) and postnatal environments in shaping facial features.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Symmetry
ISSN
2073-8994
e-ISSN
2073-8994
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
344
UT code for WoS article
000764146800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85124729471