Changes in twinning rates in South Korea: 1981-2002

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-79

  Hur, Yoon Mi ^a   Kwon, Jun Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SOUTH KOREA; TWIN ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS;

EID: 16444377753     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1832427053435445     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bulmer, M. G. (1970). The Biology of Twinning in Man. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
2. Chen, C. J., Lee, T. K., Wang, C. J., & Yu, M. W. (1992). Secular trend and associated factors in twinning in Taiwan. Acta Geneticae Medica et Gemellologiae, 41, 205-213.
3. Chen, C. J., Lin, T. M., Chang, C., & Cheng, Y. J. (1987). Epidemiological characteristics of twinning rates in Taiwan. Acta Geneticae Medica et Gemellologiae, 36, 335-342.
4. Doherty, J. D. H., & Lancaster, P. A. L. (1986). The secular trend of twinning in Australia, 1853-1982. Acta Geneticae Medica et Gemellologiae, 35, 61-76.
5. Imaizumi, Y. (1992). Twinning rates in Japan, 1951-1990. Acta Geneticae Medica et Gemellologiae, 41, 165-175.
6. Imaizumi, Y. (1998). A comparative study of twinning and triplet rates in 17 countries, 1972-1996. Acta Geneticae Medica et Gemellologiae, 47, 101-114.
7. Imaizumi, Y., & Nonaka, K. (1997). The twinning rates by zygosity in Japan, 1975-1994. Acta Geneticae Medica et Gemellologiae, 46, 9-22.
8. Kiely, J. L., & Kiely, M. (2001). Epidemiological trends in multiple births in the United States, 1971-1998. Twin Research, 4, 131-133.
9. Korea National Statistical Office. (2003). Statistical database. Daejeon, South Korea: Author.
10. Lloyd, O. L., Lloyd, M. M., Williams, F. L. R., & Lawson, A. (1988). Twinning in human populations and in cattle exposed to air pollution from incinerators. British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 45, 556-560.
11. Obi-Osius, N., Misselwitz, B., Karmaus, W., & Witten, J. (2004). Twin frequency and industrial pollution in different regions of Hesse, Germany. Occupational Environmental Medicine, 61, 482-487.
12. Pollard, R. (1995). Ethnic comparison of twinning rates in California. Human Biology, 67, 921-931.
13. Rydhstroem, H. (1998). No obvious spatial clustering of twin births in Sweden between 1973 and 1990. Environmental Research, 76, 27-31.
14. Shek, Y., Huang, A., Shek, Y., & Keith, L. (1997). Secular rates of twinning in Asia: Recent observations and review of literature. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 23, 407-413.
15. Wilcox, L. S., Kiely, J. L., Melvin, C. L., & Martin, M. C. (1996). Assisted reproductive technologies: Estimates of their contribution to multiple births and newborn hospital days in the United States. Fertility and Sterility, 65, 361-366.