Is preterm delivery genetically determined?

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 363-372

  Wildschut, Hajo I J ^a   Lumey, L H ^b,d   Lunt, Peter W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Medical Genetics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS OUTCOME; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; VARIANCE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026002781     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1991.tb00722.x     Document Type: Article

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