Epidemiology of twinning

Current Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 126-134

  Campbell, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD GROUP; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PARITY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031789128     PISSN: 09575847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-5847(98)80032-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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