Down's syndrome and paternal age in Norway

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 314-319

  Kazaura, Method R ^a,b   Lie, Rolv T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Centre for International Health   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORWAY; PATERNAL AGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; ODDS RATIO; PATERNAL AGE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036814182     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2002.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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