Can circulatory fetal DNA be used to study placentation at high altitude?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1022, Issue , 2004, Pages 124-128

  Zhong, Xiao Yan ^a   Wang, Yiming ^b   Chen, Suqin ^b   Labu, ^c   Pubuzhuoma, ^c   Gesangzhuogab, ^c   Ouzhuwangmu, ^d   Hahn, Cornelia ^a   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a   Hahn, Sinuhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Second People's Hospital of Tibet   (China)

^d Lhasa Matern Child Hlth Hosp T   (China)

Author keywords

Altitude; Circulatory DNA; Fetus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALTITUDE; CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 3242724822     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1318.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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