Advanced maternal age and the risk of Down syndrome characterized by the meiotic stage of the chromosomal error: A population-based study

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 628-633

  Yoon, Paula W ^a   Freeman, Sallie B ^b,c   Sherman, Stephanie L ^b,c,d   Taft, Lisa F ^b   Gu, Yuanchao ^b   Pettay, Dorothy ^b   Dana Flanders, W ^d   Khoury, Muin J ^a   Hassold, Terry J ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b Dept of Genet and Molec Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY 21;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; RISK; TRISOMY;

EID: 0030058258     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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