A search for environmental and genetic background for neural tube defects: Twenty-five years of experience

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 86-89

  Pietrzyk, J J ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genetic markers; Molecular background; Neural tube defects; Segregation analysis

Indexed keywords

BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATHOGENESIS; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; POLAND; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0030744345     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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