Effect of allowing for ethnic group in prenatal screening for Down's syndrome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 691-698

  Watt, H C ^a   Wald, N J ^a   Smith, D ^a   Kennard, A ^a   Densem, J ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Down's syndrome; Ethnic group; Prenatal screening

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; ESTRIOL; INHIBIN;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEGRO; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY WEIGHT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DOWN SYNDROME; ESTRIOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; INHIBINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029801864     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199608)16:8<691::AID-PD946>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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