Gulf War veterans and hemifacial microsomia

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-52

  Werler, Martha M ^a   Sheehan, Jane E ^a   Mitchell, Allen A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GOLDENHAR SYNDROME; HEMIFACIAL MICROSOMIA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; GULF WAR; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; VETERANS;

EID: 12844266016     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20097     Document Type: Article

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