Second‐trimester levels of maternal urinary gonadotropin peptide in down syndrome pregnancy

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 739-744

  Canick, Jacob A ^a   Kellner, Leonard H ^b   Saller, Devereux N ^c   Palomaki, Glenn E ^d   Walker, Roger P ^e   Osathanondh, Rapin ^f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d FOUNDATION FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corp   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

beta core fragment; Down syndrome; human chorionic gonadotropin; prenatal screening; urinary gonadotropin peptide

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FETUS; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0029023113     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970150809     Document Type: Article

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