Birth weight and age at menopause in Australian female twin pairs: Exploration of the fetal origin hypothesis

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-59

  Treloar, Susan A ^a   Sadrzadeh, Sheda ^b   Do, Kim Anh ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^d   Lambalk, Cornelis B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age at menopause; Birth weight; Fetal origin hypothesis; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MENOPAUSE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWINS;

EID: 0033959139     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.1.55     Document Type: Article

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