Elevated maternal age-specific rates of Down syndrome liveborn offspring of women of Mexican and Central American origin in California

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-251

  Hook, Ernest B ^a,b   Carothers, Andrew D ^c   Hecht, Christina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Down syndrome; Hispanics; Maternal age; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CYTOGENETICS; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL AGE; MEXICO; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK;

EID: 0032973045     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199903)19:3<245::AID-PD523>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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