Should more ethnicity categories be used in multiple marker screening programmes? [2]

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 479-480

  Liu, Richard ^a   Shah, Neil ^a   Meier, Chris ^a   O'Donnell, Andrea ^a   Huang, Tianhua ^a   Summers, Anne M ^a  

^a NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARAB; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINESE; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL RECORD; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 3042742249     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.895     Document Type: Letter

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