Latent class analysis applied to patterns of fetal sonographic abnormalities: Definition of phenotypes associated with aneuploidy

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 840-845

  Farina, Antonio ^a   Sekizawa, Akihiko ^a   Ralston, Steven J ^a   D'Alton, Mary E ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidies; Fetal abnormalities; Latent class analysis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOWN SYNDROME; DUODENUM ATRESIA; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OMPHALOCELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TURNER SYNDROME;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; TRISOMY; TURNER SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0032861051     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199909)19:9<840::AID-PD654>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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