Epidemiological analysis of the association between two congenital anomalies in the same child: A method for adjusting nonspecific clustering

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-67

  Prieto, Luis ^a   Martínez Frías, María Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

associations; cluster of defects; congenital anomalies; epidemiologic methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS;

EID: 0029864930     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960301)62:1<61::AID-AJMG13>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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