Etiology of individual differences in birth weight of twins as a function of maternal smoking during pregnancy

Twin Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 123-130

  Van Baal, Caroline G M ^a,b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Genetics; Gestational age; Maternal smoking; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SMOKING; TWINS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; SMOKING; TWINS;

EID: 0032149728     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.1.3.123     Document Type: Article

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