Zygosity and placental anatomy in 15 consecutive sets of spontaneously conceived triplets

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 247-252

  Machin, Geoffrey A ^a,b   Bamforth, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

diseases in triplets; diseases in twins; triplets; zygosity

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOSITY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORION; DNA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; TRIPLETS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030023610     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960122)61:3<247::AID-AJMG8>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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