A shift from a male to a female majority in newborns with the increasing age of grand grand multiparous women

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2321-2323

  Juntunen, K S T ^a   Kvist, A P ^a   Kauppila, A J I ^b  

^a FAMILY FEDERATION OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birth order; Gender of newborn; Interpregnancy interval; Maternal age; Paternal age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPARA; NORMAL HUMAN; PATERNAL AGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0030832876     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.10.2321     Document Type: Article

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