Risk factors for trisomy 21: Maternal cigarette smoking and oral contraceptive use in a population-based case-control study

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 80-88

  Yang, Quanhe ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Cigarette smoking; Down syndrome; Nondisjunction; Oral contraceptives; Trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG INTERACTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0033086398     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00125817-199903000-00004     Document Type: Article

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