Fecundability of female twins

Epidemiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 189-192

  Christensen, Kaare ^a   Basso, Olga ^b   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^a   Juul, Svend ^b   Boldsen, Jesper ^b   Vaupel, James W ^a   Olsen, Jørn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fecundability; Fertility; Hormones; Sex; Twins; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TWINS;

EID: 0031892926     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199803000-00015     Document Type: Article

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