Analysis of the risk for congenital defects in different ethnic groups of our country;Analisis del riesgo que para defectos congenitos tienen diferentes grupos etnicos de nuestro pais

Anales Espanoles de Pediatria

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-400

  Martnez Frias M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; CONSANGUINITY; NEWBORN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN;

ABNORMALITIES; CONSANGUINITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 0031870529     PISSN: 03024342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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