Rates of chromosome abnormalities at different maternal ages

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 282-285

  Hook, Ernest B ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEREDITY; MATERNAL AGE; NONDISJUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL AGE 35 AND OVER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK;

EID: 0019442758     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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